Assessment of Risk of Disease Progression in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Insights from an International Survey of Clinical Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Current guidelines for the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) recommend regular multi-parametric assessment of a patient's risk of clinical worsening or death, with the goal of achieving/maintaining a low-risk status. This international survey investigated how physicians currently assess risk and compared their clinical gestalt (judgement of risk) with the risk calculated using an algorithm based on the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Respiratory Society (ERS) pulmonary hypertension guidelines and demonstrated to provide accurate mortality estimates.

Methods

PAH-treating physicians from Europe and the United States were surveyed on (1) how frequently they evaluated the recommended risk-assessment parameters and (2) to complete pati

SUBMITTER: Simons JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822842 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature