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Pulmonary Hypertension

Pocket Guidelines

Publication date: 2009

Chairpersons: Nazzareno Galiè

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Definitions
  • Clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension
  • Pulmonary arterial hypertension (Group I)
    • Diagnosis
    • Evaluation of severity
    • Therapy
    • Specific pulmonary arterial hypertension subsets
  • Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease and pulmonary capillary haemangiomatosis (Group 1')
  • Pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disase (Group 2)
  • Pulmonary hypertension due to lung diseases and/or hypoxaemia (Group 3)
  • Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (Group 4)
  • Definition of pulmonary arterial hypertension referral centre

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