Echocardiographic signs of pulmonary hypertension in patients with newly recognized hypersensitivity pneumonitis, prevalence and clinical predictors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is the third, according to frequency, interstitial lung disease, with the estimated incidence rate of 1-2/100,000. In HP patients, the extensive inflammatory lesions encompassing both small airways and lung parenchyma, as well as subsequent development of lung fibrosis, may result in respiratory insufficiency and secondary pulmonary hypertension (PH). The aim of the present retrospective study was to assess the prevalence of echocardiographic signs of PH and its' clinical predictors, in newly recognized HP patients.

Methods

Consecutive HP patients, recognized in single pulmonary unit between 2005 and 2017, in whom echocardiography was performed at diagnosis, entered the present study. HP diagnosis was verified in every patient acc

SUBMITTER: Dybowska M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8339783 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature