Pulmonary hypertension in the fetus, the newborn, and the child.
Pulmonary hypertension is a syndrome characterized by high pulmonary vascular resistance. It is a well described entity in newborn infants and children but almost unknown in the fetus. Therefore, this article focuses mainly on the former and then summarize how we diagnose and manage the problem in the fetus.
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012121:Respiration, Artificial