Author(s):
Sriram D Rao,
Srinath Adusumalli,
Jeremy A Mazurek
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3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) remains one of the most common medical conditions worldwide, placing a continuously growing burden on healthcare providers. Within the HF population itself, the subset of patients who develop pulmonary hypertension (PH-LHD) has been identified as having a significantly higher morbidity and mortality.1 There are limited therapeutic options for PH-LHD and it often complicates the…
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Author(s):
Sriram D Rao,
Srinath Adusumalli,
Jeremy A Mazurek
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3 years ago
In the article by Rao et al. entitled Pulmonary Hypertension in Heart Failure Patients (Cardiac Failure Review 2020;6:e05. https://doi.org/10.15420/cfr.2019.09), the following correction should be made.
The authors incorrectly stated that higher TAPSE/PASP correlates with “higher levels of natriuretic peptides, worse systemic and pulmonary haemodynamics and abnormal exercise aerobic capacity”,…
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Job title: Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Program
Myung H Park, MD, FACC, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and the Pulmonary Hypertension Association…
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Job title: Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery
Dr Mert Dumantepe is an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Acibadem University School of Medicine, Turkey. He completed his graduation from Istanbul University School of Medicine, Turkey in 2001.
He did a fellowship in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary endarterectomy and the heart transplantation and mechanical asist device programme at the University of…
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Author(s):
Mattia Arrigo,
Lars Christian Huber,
Stephan Winnik,et al
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3 years ago
In 1616, Sir William Harvey was the first person to describe the importance of right ventricular function.1 However, the right ventricle (RV) has received little attention in the past, with cardiology dealing mostly with the diseases of the left ventricle (LV) and their potential treatment. Since the early 1950s, however, the prognostic significance of RV function has been recognised in several…
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Job title: Senior Director of the cardiac care unit
ProfDiana Bonderman isSenior Director of the cardiac care unit at theMedical University of Vienna.
Her clinical interests are Cardiovascular Medicine, Intensive care Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Hemodynamics, Pulmonary Hypertension and Ejection Fraction.
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Dr Alejandro Recio is clinical cardiologist, resident tutor and co-coordinator of the Specialised Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension Unit, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain.
Dr Alejandro Recio-Mayoral is on the Editorial Board of European Cardiology Review.
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