Catalog
Pulmonary hypertension
Link to WHO Definition
Pulmonary hypertension – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1496633964
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a haemodynamic and pathophysiological condition defined as an increase in mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) 25 mmHg at rest as assessed by right heart catheterization. PH can be found in multiple clinical conditions.
Parents
Children
- BB01.3 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
- BB01.1 Pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease
- Precapillary pulmonary hypertension
- BB01.2 Pulmonary hypertension due to lung disease or hypoxia
- BB01.0 Pulmonary arterial hypertension
- BB01.4 Pulmonary hypertension with multifactorial mechanism
- KB42 Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
- Other secondary pulmonary hypertension
- BB01.5 Cor pulmonale
- Postcapillary pulmonary hypertension