title: Comprehensive MDCT evaluation of patients with pulmonary hypertension: diagnosing underlying causes with the updated Dana Point 2008 classification.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Pulmonary hypertension is a challenge for imagers and clinicians, with a variety of possible underlying causes, each with its own specific treatment. Although the diagnosis is based on physiologic measurements, ECG-gated MDCT can play a vital role in elucidating underlying cardiac, vascular, and pulmonary causes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A revised system for pulmonary hypertension, the Dana Point classification, can provide a template for review of the myriad causes of this complex condition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: I-Chen
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Wei-Lin
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Kuo-Yang
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Min-Chi
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Kae-Woei
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Hsin-Yu
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Wan-Chun
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Liao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D055424:Cardiac-Gated Imaging Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*