Harald Kaemmerer, Gerhard Paul Diller, Ingo Dähnert, Christina A Eichstaedt, Andreas Eicken, Annika Freiberger, Sebastian Freilinger, Ralf Geiger, Matthias Gorenflo, Ekkehard Grünig, Alfred Hager, Ulrike Herberg, Michael Huntgeburth, Ann-Sophie Kaemmerer, Rainer Kozlik-Feldmann, Astrid Lammers, Nicole Nagdyman, Sebastian Michel, Kai Helge Schmidt, Anselm Uebing, Fabian von Scheidt, Christian Apitz
The number of adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) is steadily rising and amounts to approximately 360,000 in Germany. CHD is often associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which may develop early in untreated CHD. Despite timely treatment of CHD, PAH often persists or recurs in older age and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.The revised European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society 2022 guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of PH represent a significant contribution to the optimized care of those affected...
November 2023: Pneumologie