Pulmonary Hypertension in Infants, Children, and Young Adults

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in neonates, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults is a complex condition that can be associated with several cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic diseases contributing to morbidity and mortality. The underlying pulmonary hypertensive vascular disease (PHVD) is characterized by inflammation, pulmonary vascular remodeling, and angio-obliteration leading to elevated pulmonary arterial pressure and resistance, right ventricular dysfunction, left ventricular compression, and subsequent heart failure. Recent advancements in PH-targeted therapies and interventional-surgical procedures have contributed to the improvement in quality of life and survival in PH/PHVD. This paper gives an update on recent developments in the diagnosis and treatment of children and young adults with PH. The focus is on the heterogeneous etiology/pathophysiology of PH in the young, and particularly on PHVD associated with congenital heart disease. Moreover, new pharmacological, surgical, and interventional therapies and their practical application in progressive/severe pulmonary arterial hypertension with inadequate response to conventional pharmacotherapy are discussed..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:69

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 69(2017), 20, Seite 2551-2569

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hansmann, Georg [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Abnormalities
Adolescence
Adolescents
Adults
Age
Alveoli
Anatomy
Angiogenesis
Anomalies
Arteries
Asphyxia
Babies
Bone morphogenetic protein receptor type II
Calcium channels (voltage-gated)
Capillary pressure
Cardiology
Catheterization
Children
Children & youth
Chorioamnionitis
Circulation
Classification
Developing countries
Diagnosis
Epidemiology
Etiology
Failure
Fetuses
Genetics
Health care
Health risks
Heart
Heart diseases
Hemodynamics
Hypertension
Hypoplasia
Infants
Lung
Lung diseases
Lymphatic system
Medical services
Mercury
Metabolism
Mortality
Mutations
Neonates
Oxygen consumption
PH effects
Pulmonary arteries
Pulmonary hypertension
Risk
Risk factors
Schistosomiasis
Sea level
Surface area
Survival
Transplantation
Ventricle
Viruses
Wedges
Wood
Young adults

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RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.1016/j.jacc.2017.03.575

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1994890002