Pulmonary hypertension and cardiac lesions in chronic nonspecific lung diseases
Paleev, N.R.; Tsar'kova, L.N.; Chereĭskaia, N.K.
Kardiologiia 25(10): 58-63
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-9040 PMID: 2935665 Document Number: 260830
Clinical and instrumental criteria for pulmonary and intracardiac hemodynamic disorders within the lesser circulation, associated with chronic nonspecific pulmonary disease (CNPD) are presented. It is demonstrated that right-ventricular (RV) hypertrophy is not an obligatory sign of hemodynamic disorders complicating chronic pulmonary disease, therefore selecting it as the principal sign of an intricate complex of pulmonocardiac disorders is a mistake that interferes with prospective early clinical diagnosis of pulmonocardiac disturbances associated with CNPD and reduces the efficiency of their treatment. The nature of CNPD-associated pulmonocardiac disturbances is adequately reflected in the term "secondary pulmonary hypertension".