title: Pulmonary hypertension: hemodynamic diagnosis and management.
abstract: Hemodynamic classification of pulmonary hypertension relates to the hemodynamic mechanisms of pulmonary arterial hypertension, such as abnormalities of pulmonary blood flow, pulmonary vascular resistance, and pulmonary venous pressures. The therapeutic approaches can be directed to the hemodynamic mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Chatterjee Center for Cardiac Research, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA. chatterj@medicine.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Kanu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: De Marco
authors.forename: Joseph S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Alpert
mesh_terms: D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy