title: [Radiologic detection of pulmonary artery hypertension].
abstract: In 43 patients with obstructive and restrictive lung disease a catheterisation of the right heart with measurement of pulmonary artery pressure was performed. In a retrospective study several radiological parameters of pulmonary hypertension were evaluated on the chest radiographs of these patients. Considering those parameters on the p.a. and lateral chest radiograph, the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in patients with elevated pulmonary artery pressure at rest can be made with great accuracy. When pulmonary artery pressure is elevated only during exercise, the accuracy of radiological diagnosis is much lower.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Diagnostische Radiologie, II. Medizinischen Universitätsklinik Wien.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hübsch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jenny
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schwaighofer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Seidl
authors.forename: O C
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Burghuber
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011669:Pulmonary Wedge Pressure; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Zur radiologischen Erfassung der pulmonalarteriellen Hypertension.