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Pulmonary Arterial
Hypertension: what is it?
Is Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension very common?
What causes Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension?
What are common symptoms of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension?
How is Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension classified?
How is Pulmonary Arterial
Hypertension diagnosed?
Classifying severity of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
What can be done to treat
Pulmonary Arterial
Hypertension?
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Anticoagulants
Associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (APAH)
Autoantibody
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Calcium channel blockers
Collagen
Congenital heart disease
Connective tissue disease (CTD)
CT scan (Computerised Tomography)
Cyanosis
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Diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc)
Diuretics
Dyspnoea
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Echocardiography or Doppler echocardiogram
Eisenmenger’s Syndrome / Physiology
Electrocardiogram (ECG)
Endothelin (ET)
Endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA)
Endothelin receptors
Endothelium
Extracellular matrix
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Familial pulmonary arterial hypertension (FPAH)
Fibroblasts
Fibrosis
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Hypertrophy
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Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH)
Inflammation
Interstitial lung disease
Ischaemia
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Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (LcSSc)
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New York Heart Association (NYHA)
Nitric oxide (NO)
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Portal hypertension
Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH)
Prostacyclin
Prostanoids
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
Pulmonary artery
Pulmonary fibrosis
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Raynaud’s phenomenon
Remodelling
Right heart catheterisation
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Scleroderma or Systemic Sclerosis
Sleep Apnoea
Syncope (fainting)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or Lupus
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Telangiectases
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Vascular remodelling
Vasculopathy
Vasoconstriction
Vasodilation
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WHO Functional Class
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