Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

Hypertension, Pulmonary Cardiac Catheterization

Authors

  • Jorge Guardado Departamento de Medicina Interna, Hospital Roosevelt, Guatemala, Guatemala., Guatemala
  • Maynor Palma
    Enfermedadesrespiratorias@outlook.com
    Unidad de Neumología, Hospital Roosevelt, Guatemala, Guatemala., Guatemala
  • Edgar Contreras Unidad de Neumología, Hospital Roosevelt, Guatemala, Guatemala., Guatemala
August 31, 2021
December 6, 2021

Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is defined as an increase in mean pulmonary arterial pressure greater than 20 mmHg as measured by cardiac catheterization. It is currently classified according to etiological groups proposed in the 2013 Nice Consensus. I