Pulmonary hypertension in patients with interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features.

ABSTRACT: Pulmonary hypertension in interstitial lung diseases is associated with increased mortality and hospitalizations and reduced exercise capacity. Interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF) is a recently described interstitial lung disease. The characteristics of pulmonary hypertension in IPAF patients are unknown. We sought to characterize patients with IPAF based on their echocardiographic probability of pulmonary hypertension and compare patients with and without pulmonary hypertension identified by right heart catheterization. We conducted a retrospective study of patients seen in the interstitial lung disease clinic from 2015 to 2018. Forty-seven patients with IPAF were identified. Patients were classified into low, intermediate and high echocardiographic pulmonary hypertensi

SUBMITTER: Alzghoul BN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7727068 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature