Pulmonary hypertension

The monograph is devoted to the problems of the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension. The term “pulmonary hypertension” combines a group of nosologies with a general diagnostic criterion - increasing pressure in the pulmonary artery. The work presents the issues of pathogenesis and the genetic foundations of pulmonary hypertension, its modern classification is given, the forms of pulmonary arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertension are described due to the pathology of the left heart, lung or chronic pulmonary artery thromboembolism. This diagnostic algorithm, including optimal diagnostic methods. The monograph presents the modern possibilities of treating pulmonary hypertension, introduces the data of key randomized clinical studies and allows you to look into the future. The work was created by the specialists of the leading expert centers of our country, headed by the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Russian Cardiological Scientific and Production Complex” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and is intended for cardiologists, pulmonologists, therapists, rheumatologists, as well as for practitioners related to the examination and treatment of patients with pulmonary hypertension.