A new molecular imaging technique— 18 F-FAPI PET—can detect the first signs of tissue remodeling in patients with pulmonary ... through hemodynamic measurements and echocardiography, my ...

F-FAPI PET -- can detect the first signs of tissue remodeling in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), providing physicians with an early marker for disease progression. This approach ...

Women are more likely to have pulmonary arterial hypertension, but men tend to have worse outcomes and worse treatment responses.

Despite the poor outcomes related to the presence of pulmonary hypertension, it often goes undiagnosed ... for correlation between the model outputs and the PASP measurements calculated from ...

Men with PAH had a larger right heart size and worse survival than women, independent of body size and functional status, a ...

Thus, it can identify the earliest signs of decompensation even before pulmonary hypertension is overt. Invasive measurement of coupling using ... of functional assessment modalities including CPEX, ...

1 Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 2 Heart & Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Objective Prognosis in ...

Cardiac function was evaluated using echocardiography and catheterization for 9 ... plays an important role in the prognosis of congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, dilated cardiomyopathy ...

Patients with symptoms, signs, ECG, or chest radiograph suggestive of pulmonary hypertension should undergo two-dimensional echocardiography with Doppler flow. Echocardiography is the most useful ...