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.
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION
- HYPERKINETIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
- Miscellaneous
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- TREATMENT
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Disorders
- Sarcoidosis
- Other Clearly Extrinsic Causes of Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION