Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Pulmonary Division, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Dec 24;62(25 Suppl):D100-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.033.
Pulmonary hypertension (PH), a common complication of left heart diseases (LHD), negatively impacts symptoms, exercise capacity, and outcome. Although the true prevalence of PH-LHD is unknown, a subset of patients might present significant PH that cannot be explained by a passive increase in left-sided filling pressures. The term "out-of-proportion" PH has been used to identify that population without a clear definition, which has been found less than ideal and created confusion. We propose a change in terminology and a new definition of PH due to LHD. We suggest to abandon "out-of-proportion" PH and to distinguish "isolated post-capillary PH" from "post-capillary PH with a pre-capillary component" on the basis of the pressure difference between diastolic pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary artery wedge pressure. Although there is no validated treatment for PH-LHD, we provide insights into management and discuss completed and randomized trials in this condition. Finally, we provide recommendations for future clinical trials to establish safety and efficacy of novel compounds to target this area of unmet medical need.
肺动脉高压(PH)是左心疾病(LHD)的常见并发症,对症状、运动能力和预后产生负面影响。尽管 PH-LHD 的真实患病率尚不清楚,但一部分患者可能存在无法用左心充盈压被动增加来解释的显著 PH。术语“不成比例”的 PH 已被用于识别该人群,但没有明确的定义,这被认为不够理想并造成了混淆。我们建议改变术语,并提出新的 LHD 相关性 PH 定义。我们建议放弃“不成比例”的 PH,并根据舒张肺动脉压和肺动脉楔压之间的压力差,将“孤立性毛细血管后 PH”与“具有毛细血管前成分的毛细血管后 PH”区分开来。虽然目前尚无针对 PH-LHD 的有效治疗方法,但我们提供了该疾病管理方面的见解,并讨论了已完成和正在进行的临床试验。最后,我们为未来的临床试验提供了建议,以确定针对这一未满足医疗需求领域的新型化合物的安全性和疗效。