Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Department of Medicine (Cardiology), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Pulm Circ. 2013 Dec;3(4):963-7. doi: 10.1086/674750.
In this guideline, the International Right Heart Foundation Working Group moves a step forward to develop a common language to describe the development and defects that exemplify the common syndrome of right heart failure. We first propose fundamental definitions of the distinctive components of the right heart circulation and provide consensus on a universal definition of right heart failure. These definitions will form the foundation for describing a uniform nomenclature for right heart circulatory failure with a view to foster collaborative research initiatives and conjoint education in an effort to provide insight into mechanisms of disease unique to the right heart.
在本指南中,国际右心基金会工作组向前迈进了一步,旨在开发一种通用语言来描述体现右心衰竭共同综合征的发育和缺陷。我们首先提出右心循环的独特组成部分的基本定义,并就右心衰竭的通用定义达成共识。这些定义将构成描述右心循环衰竭统一命名法的基础,旨在促进合作研究计划和联合教育,努力深入了解右心特有的疾病机制。