title: [Pulmonary hypertension in the elderly].
abstract: In the past decade, a significant improvement has been done in the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a devastating disease. Beside the aging population, one of the next challenges is to develop a specific management of a pulmonary hypertension's suspicion, in the aged patients. In fact, recent data have shown that if pulmonary hypertension were mostly related to chronic heart or lung failure, or pulmonary embolism, some elderly may in fact develop a real pulmonary arterial hypertension. Because of the potential therapies which may be proposed, the evaluation of a pulmonary hypertension's suspicion in the elderly needs a stringent evaluation by trained physicians, in collaboration with geriatricians.
authors: Groupe de recherche sur la thrombose (EA3065), Université Saint-Étienne, Jean Monet, Saint-Étienne, France, Inserm, CIE3, Saint-Étienne, France, Médecine vasculaire et thérapeutique, Centre de compétences Rhône-Alpes d'hypertension pulmonaire, CHU Saint-Étienne, Hôpital Nord, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors: Laurent
authors: L
authors: Bertoletti
authors: Gérontologie clinique, La Charité, CHU Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors: Gaëlle
authors: G
authors: Bertoletti
authors: Inserm, CIE3, Saint-Étienne, France, Médecine vasculaire et thérapeutique, Centre de compétences Rhône-Alpes d'hypertension pulmonaire, CHU Saint-Étienne, Hôpital Nord, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors: Élodie
authors: É
authors: De Magalhaes
authors: Inserm, CIE3, Saint-Étienne, France, Médecine vasculaire et thérapeutique, Centre de compétences Rhône-Alpes d'hypertension pulmonaire, CHU Saint-Étienne, Hôpital Nord, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors: Adel
authors: A
authors: Merah
authors: Médecine interne, Hôpital Nord, CHU Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors: Jean-Baptiste
authors: JB
authors: Gaultier
authors: Cardiologie, Hôpital Nord, CHU Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors: Alexie
authors: A
authors: Gate-Martinet
authors: Gérontologie clinique, La Charité, CHU Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Celarier
authors: Service de pneumologie et soins intensifs thoraciques, Centre de référence de l'hypertension pulmonaire sévère, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, Inserm U999, Université Paris Sud, Paris, France.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Montani
authors: Gérontologie clinique, La Charité, CHU Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France, SNA-EPIS (EA 4607), Université Saint-Étienne, Jean Monet, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors: Émilie
authors: É
authors: Crawford-Achour
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D010820:Physicians
keywords: aged; cardiac failure; pulmonary embolism; pulmonary hypertension; respiratory failure