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McCrory DC, Coeytaux RR, Schmit KM, et al. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Treatment [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2013 Apr. (Comparative Effectiveness Reviews, No. 117.)
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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Treatment [Internet].
Show details- 6MWD
6-minute walk distance
- AHRQ
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- BID
two times per day
- BNP
B-type natriuretic peptide
- CI
confidence interval
- CHF
congestive heart failure
- COPD
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- CTEPH
chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
- CVD
collagen vascular disease
- DLCO
diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide
- FAC
fractional area change
- FC
functional class
- HR
hazard ratio
- HRQOL
health-related quality of life
- IQR
interquartile range
- KQ
Key Question
- MI
myocardial infarction
- MIF
migration inhibitory factor
- mo
month/months
- mPAP
mean pulmonary artery pressure
- MPI
myocardial performance index
- NA
not applicable
- NR
not reported
- NT-proBNP
N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide
- NYHA
New York Heart Association
- OR
odds ratio
- PAH
pulmonary arterial hypertension
- PADP
pulmonary artery diastolic pressure
- PASP
pulmonary artery systolic pressure
- PCWP
pulmonary capillary wedge pressure
- PH
pulmonary hypertension
- PPH
primary pulmonary hypertension
- PVR
pulmonary vascular resistance
- QOL
quality of life
- RA
right atrium
- RAP
right atrial pressure
- RHC
right heart catheterization
- RIMP
right index of myocardial performance
- RR
risk ratio
- RV
right ventricle
- RVEF
right ventricle ejection fraction
- S′
tricuspid lateral annular systolic velocity
- SD
standard deviation
- SEM
standard error of the mean
- SOE
strength of evidence
- sPAP
systolic pulmonary artery pressure
- SSc
systemic sclerosis
- TAPSE
tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion
- TDI
tissue Doppler imaging
- TID
three times per day
- TEP
Technical Expert Panel
- TG
tricuspid gradient
- TRV
tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity
- VSD
ventricular septal defect
- VTIRVOT
velocity-time integral of right ventricular outflow tract
- yr
year/years
- Abbreviations - Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Trea...Abbreviations - Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Screening, Management, and Treatment
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