Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined by a mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than
20 mm Hg and classified into five different groups sharing similar pathophysiologic …

Pulmonary hypertension remained an unexplained intractable disease with poor prognosis.
In the last 2 decades, however, the diagnosis and treatment methods for this disease …

COPD is the second most common cause of pulmonary hypertension, and is a common
complication of severe COPD with significant implications for both quality of life and …

Background Severe pulmonary hypertension (PH) is prognostically highly relevant in
patients with COPD. The criteria for severe PH have been defined based on hemodynamic …

Background Pulmonary hemorrhage and hemoptysis are the second-most common and
potentially life-threatening complications after pneumothorax following percutaneous …

Background and objective Elevated mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) is a significant
prognostic indicator in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). It has been reported that the …

Background We measured by cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) main and
branch pulmonary artery diameters and cross sectional areas in diastole and systole in …

Purpose The aim of this study was to evaluate the vascular and parenchymal CT imaging
findings, including vessel and cardiac chamber diameter measurements, in patients newly …

Background Chest computed tomography (CT) is a widely used method to assess
morphological and dynamic abnormalities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

Background We aimed to develop a severity classification system of the main pulmonary
artery diameter (mPA) and its ratio to the ascending aorta diameter (ratio PA) for the …