Pulmonary Hypertension

Covers both PH and PAH, providing information required by the wide range of clinicians who will encounter these conditions, including cardiologists, respiratory physicians, rheumatologists, specialists in liver and AIDS medicine, and hematologists.

It covers what it is, who it is likely to affect, how it is diagnosed, including the pitfalls of the various diagnostic tests, the different and evolving forms of treatment, long term management of this often devastating chronic disease, and the crucial role of multidisciplinary management in optimizing clinical care of these patients who usually have multi-system diseases. It also covers the up new classification for both PH and PAH, and new drugs that have recently become available.

• Provides essential information on both pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary arterial hypertension
• Details both areas of consensus and areas of doubt in this complex but rapidly developing field
• Covers current guidelines from both Europe and the USA, including new classifications and treatments
• Acknowledges the crucial role of multidisciplinary management in optimizing clinical care of these patients who usually have multi-system diseases

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Handler, Clive; Gerry Coghlan, Gerry

ISBN:

978-0-19-957256-4

Specialty:

• Cardiology
• Internal Medicine
• Pulmonary Medicine

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

288

Publication Year:

2011