Pulmonary Hypertension

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Exercise Pulmonary Hypertension

   • Michael G. Risbano

   Pages 1-27

3. Advanced Right Ventricular Assessment: Pulmonary Artery Compliance and RV-PA Coupling

   • Michael J. Bashline, Marc A. Simon

   Pages 29-50

4. Beyond Scleroderma: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Patients with Other Connective Tissue Diseases

   • Scott Visovatti, Christopher Lewis, Ryan Sanderson, Nektarios Vasilottos, Alexander Zheutlin

   Pages 51-60

5. Isolated Postcapillary and Combined Pre- and Postcapillary Pulmonary Hypertension

   • Irene M. Lang

   Pages 61-70

6. Current Approach to Chronic Thromboembolic Disease Without Pulmonary Hypertension

   • Gustavo A. Heresi, Batool Jamal AbuHalimeh

   Pages 71-87

7. Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease and Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis

   • Barbara L. LeVarge, David Montani, Marc Humbert

   Pages 89-108

8. Controversies in the Management of Pulmonary Hypertension in the Setting of Lung Disease

   • Steven D. Nathan, Joan Albert Barberà

   Pages 109-122

9. Pulmonary Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease: Current Controversies and Clinical Practices

   • Laurent Savale, Marc Humbert, Elizabeth S. Klings

   Pages 123-134

10. Sarcoidosis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension

    • H. James Ford, Ahmed Sesay, Elizabeth Sonntag, Sheila Krishnan

    Pages 135-146

11. Parenteral Prostacyclin Use in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    • Jessica H. Huston, Anna R. Hemnes

    Pages 147-171

12. Pulmonary Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease

    • Veeranna Maddipati, Murali Chakinala

    Pages 173-194

13. Gender and Race Disparities in Pulmonary Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment

    • Karla Cruz Morel, Vinicio De Jesus Perez, Arunabh Talwar

    Pages 195-202

14. Back Matter

    Pages 203-206

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This book is a clinical guide to controversial and emerging topics in pulmonary hypertension. There are multiple challenges and unanswered questions encountered by clinicians that evaluate, diagnose and treat patients with suspected or confirmed pulmonary vascular disease. This book provides a deep dive into the diagnosis and therapeutics of pulmonary hypertension supported by the literature and balanced with personal clinical experience. Expert authors have chosen these specific topics to address issues where uncertainty and/or controversy exists as well as highlight areas that are just being incorporated into clinical practice. These topics include: exercise pulmonary hypertension, sickle cell disease and pulmonary hypertension, and sarcoid pulmonary hypertension, among many others. Chapters address the diagnostic and treatment dilemmas posed by these various clinical entities through literature review, sharing of expert opinion, and review of recent guidelines and their applicability to the multiple different nuanced presentations of pulmonary hypertension. This is an ideal guide for pulmonologists, cardiologists, and other specialty practitioners caring for patients with pulmonary hypertension.

• pulmonary hypertension
• PH
• pulmonary vascular disease
• exercise pulmonary hypertension
• scleroderma
• pre-capillary PH
• post-capillary PH
• sarcoid pulmonary hypertension

• Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine Pulmonary Hypertension Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

  H. James Ford

• Department of Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA

  Gustavo A. Heresi

• Division of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

  Michael G. Risbano

H. James Ford, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There he is Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program and Co-Medical Director of the UNC Pulmonary Specialty Clinic.

Gustavo A. Heresi, MD, MS is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, as well as the Director of the Pulmonary Vascular and CTEPH Program  at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Michael G. Risbano, MD, MA is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. There he is Director of the Invasive Cardiopulmonary Exercise Program and Head of Clinical Operations for Pulmonary Hypertension. 

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