eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | pulmonary arterial hypertension |
| Comorbidity | C0022658|renal disease |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22530005 | The purpose of the pepper-study (“prevalence of precapillary pulmonary arterial hypertension in patients with end-stage renal disease") was to assess the specific hemodynamics in ckd patients with otherwise unexplained dyspnea on hemodialysis and in those without dialysis, to elucidate possible risk factors contributing to ph, and to evaluate hemodynamic changes induced by hemodialysis – by use of right heart catheterization (rhc), the “gold standard" method for the diagnosis and characterization in pre- and postcapillary ph. |
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