title: [Diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary heart before and after hospitalization].
abstract: Prevalence of pulmonary heart among patients with cardiovascular pathology is 5%. Clinical picture of pulmonary heart comprises symptoms of underlying disease and signs of pulmonary and cardiac failure. The following instrumental methods of investigation are very helpful for diagnosis of pulmonary heart: chest roentgenography, electrocardiography, echocardiography, pulmonary function testing, computer tomography. Pulmonary heart should be diagnosed during ambulatory examination. Hospitalization of patients with pulmonary heart is dictated by severity of clinical condition or presence of diagnostic problems. Radionuclide pulmonary scintigraphy, pulmonary angiography, right heart catheterization, lung biopsy can be carried out in hospital. Treatment should be directed at underlying disease, lowering of pulmonary artery pressure, alleviation of respiratory and cardiac failure.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Research Complex; ul. Tretiya Cherepkovskaya, 15a, 121552 Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Chazova
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Mironova
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Martyniuk
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests