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Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension: Guidelines From the American Heart Association and American Thoracic Society. Circulation 2015 Nov 24;132(21):2037-99

Date

11/05/2015

Pubmed ID

26534956

DOI

10.1161/CIR.0000000000000329

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84948071383 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   922 Citations

Abstract

Pulmonary hypertension is associated with diverse cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic diseases in neonates, infants, and older children and contributes to significant morbidity and mortality. However, current approaches to caring for pediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension have been limited by the lack of consensus guidelines from experts in the field. In a joint effort from the American Heart Association and American Thoracic Society, a panel of experienced clinicians and clinician-scientists was assembled to review the current literature and to make recommendations on the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of pediatric pulmonary hypertension. This publication presents the results of extensive literature reviews, discussions, and formal scoring of recommendations for the care of children with pulmonary hypertension.

Author List

Abman SH, Hansmann G, Archer SL, Ivy DD, Adatia I, Chung WK, Hanna BD, Rosenzweig EB, Raj JU, Cornfield D, Stenmark KR, Steinhorn R, Thébaud B, Fineman JR, Kuehne T, Feinstein JA, Friedberg MK, Earing M, Barst RJ, Keller RL, Kinsella JP, Mullen M, Deterding R, Kulik T, Mallory G, Humpl T, Wessel DL, American Heart Association Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation; Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention; Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; and the American Thoracic Society

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Cardiovascular Agents
Child
Child, Preschool
Combined Modality Therapy
Diagnostic Imaging
Disease Management
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Genetic Counseling
Heart Defects, Congenital
Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Lung
Lung Transplantation
Nitric Oxide
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy
Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome
Postoperative Complications
Respiration, Artificial
Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury