POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
This results from the passive effects of an elevated left atrial pressure due to mitral valve disease or prolonged left ventricular failure. If it persists, pulmonary artery pressure gradually increases above that explained by passive transmission of the elevated outflow pressure. Initially this increase is due to reflex vasoconstriction, but eventually vascular remodeling occurs. This additional contribution to pulmonary hypertension can be quantified by the increasing gradient between the pulmonary diastolic pressure and the left atrial pressure.
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Disorders
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Sarcoidosis
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- TREATMENT
- Miscellaneous
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
- DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
- Other Clearly Extrinsic Causes of Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- HYPERKINETIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION