[New insights on pulmonary arterial hypertension].
The 3rd World Symposium on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension has been a forum for the presentation and discussion of overviews on several aspects of this devastating disease, including pathology and pathobiology, genetics, epidemiology, nomenclature and classification, diagnosis and assessment, medical treatments, interventional and surgical treatments and future directions. This editorial will provide a brief overview of the new findings emerging in this field including new pathologic and pathobiologic concepts, changes in the clinical classification and in the diagnostic definitions. In addition, new treatment strategies and future perspectives will be discussed.
Galiè
Nazzareno
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Manes
Alessandra
A
Branzi
Angelo
A
D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy