title: Response to letters regarding article, "Anticoagulation and survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension: results from the Comparative, Prospective Registry of Newly Initiated Therapies for Pulmonary Hypertension (COMPERA)".
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine and German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Karen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Olsson
authors.affiliation: Department of Pneumology, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delcroix
authors.affiliation: University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: H Ardeschir
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Ghofrani
authors.affiliation: University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tiede
authors.affiliation: Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Epidemiology Unit, German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Doerte
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Huscher
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Rudolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Speich
authors.affiliation: Thoraxclinic, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Ekkehard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grünig
authors.affiliation: Medical Clinic I, Clinic Loewenstein, Loewenstein, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Staehler
authors.affiliation: Clinic III for Internal Medicine (Cardiology) and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosenkranz
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Halank
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Cardiology, Mission Medical Hospital, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Held
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Pneumology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Tobias J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Munich Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Juergen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Behr
authors.affiliation: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Center of Oncology, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Klose
authors.affiliation: LungenClinic, Grosshansdorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Claussen
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Internal Medicine, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ewert
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, DRK Kliniken Berlin Köpenick, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Christian F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Opitz
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: C Dario
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Vizza
authors.affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Scelsi
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary Diseases, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vonk-Noordegraaf
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Defects, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kaemmerer
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: J Simon R
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Royal Free Hospital London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Gerry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coghlan
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Unit, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pepke-Zaba
authors.affiliation: Herzzentrum Bad Oeynhausen, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gorenflo
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pittrow
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine and German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Marius M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hoeper
mesh_terms: D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants