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ArticlePulmonary circulation

Proximal pulmonary arterial wall disease in patients with persistent pulmonary hypertension after successful left-sided valve replacement according to the hemodynamic phenotype.

Enric Domingo, Juan C Grignola, Pedro Trujillo, Rio Aguilar, Antonio Roman

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Article in Pulmonary circulation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Animal models of pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease.Animal models and experimental medicine · 2022
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  3. Reply to Grignola and Trujillo.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Enric Domingo1 Area del Cor, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
Juan C Grignola3 Pathophysiology Department, Facultad de Medicina, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-7217
Pedro Trujillo4 Cardiology Department, Centro Cardiovascular Universitario, Hospital de Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Rio Aguilar5 Cardiology Department, Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain.
Antonio Roman6 Department of Neumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
Universidad de la República de Uruguay · UYHospital Universitario de La Princesa · ESInstituto de Salud Carlos III · ESUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regression of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is often incomplete after successful left-sided valve replacement (LSVR). Proximal pulmonary arterial (PPA) wall disease can be involved in patients with persistent-PH after LSVR, affecting the right ventricular to pulmonary arterial (RV-PA) coupling. Fifteen patients underwent successful LSVR at least one year ago presenting PH by echo (> 50 mmHg). Prosthesis-patient mismatch and left ventricular dysfunction were discarded. All patients underwent hemodynamic and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) study. We estimated PPA stiffness (elastic modulus [EM]) and the relative area wall thickness (AWT). Acute vasoreactivity was assessed by inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) testing. RV-PA coupling was estimated by the tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion to systolic pulmonary arterial pressure ratio. Patients were classified as isolated post-capillary PH (Ipc-PH; pulmonary vascular resistance [PVR] ≤ 3 WU and/or diastolic pulmonary gradient [DPG] < 7 mmHg) and combined post- and pre-capillary PH (Cpc-PH; PVR > 3 WU and DPG ≥ 7 mmHg). Both Ipc-PH and Cpc-PH showed a significant increase of EM and AWT. Despite normal PVR and DPG, Ipc-PH had a significant decrease in pulmonary arterial capacitance and RV-PA coupling impairment. Cpc-PH had worse PA stiffness and RV-PA coupling to Ipc-PH ( P < 0.05). iNO decreased RV afterload, improving the cardiac index and stroke volume only in Cpc-PH ( P < 0.05). Patients with persistent PH after successful LSVR have PPA wall disease and RV-PA coupling impairment beyond the hemodynamic phenotype. Cpc-PH is responsive to iNO, having the worse PA stiffness and RV-PA coupling. The PPA remodeling could be an early event in the natural history of PH associated with left heart disease.

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inhaled nitric oxideleft-sided valve replacementpulmonary arterial wallpulmonary hypertensionright ventricular to pulmonary arterial coupling

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PMID30430894
PMCPMC6295709
OpenAlexW2900570917

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