Focused Update on Pulmonary Hypertension in Children
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatrics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 14314
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pulmonary hypertension in children; cardiomyopathy; heart failure; heart transplantation; exercise testing; adult congenital heart disease; pediatric cardiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The field of pulmonary hypertension is rapidly progressing. With the most recent changes to the classification and definition of pulmonary hypertension and its subtypes (World Symposium on pulmonary hypertension in Nice 2018) and new knowledge for the optimal diagnosis and treatment of infants, children, and young adults with pulmonary hypertension (including CHD/Eisenmenger and single ventricle physiology/Fontan), since the publication of the 2015 pulmonary hypertension guideline in children by AHA, there has been a need to update and discuss the challenging issues inherent to pediatric pulmonary hypertension.
Pulmonary hypertension is associated with diverse cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic diseases in neonates, infants, and older children, and contributes to significant morbidity and mortality. Even though our knowledge and understanding of this pathology has increased in the last few years, many aspects need further clarification. Thus, there is a need for a focussed update on the topic.
This Special Issue of Medicina will act as a forum to increase our understanding of pulmonary hypertension in children, by sharing knowledge about incompletely understood and controversial aspects.
Both original research articles and literature reviews will be considered for publication.
Dr. Bibhuti Das
Guest Editors
Prof. Dunbar Ivy
Co-Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pros-and cons of new criteria of pulmonary hypertension in children
- pulmonary hypertension in Fontan physiology
- pulmonary hypertension in children with sickle cell disease
- pulmonary hypertension in left heart disease: the role of the ventricular assist device
- pulmonary hypertension with Scimitar syndrome
- podiatric Eissenmenger syndrome due to complex CHD
- segmental pulmonary hypertension
- newer diagnostic modalities (ECHO and CMR) and their application to children with pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary hypertension with left heart disease and subsequent heart alone vs heart and lung transplantation
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