Lung and pulmonary vascular disease in scleroderma, the role of ...
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PH – a syndrome<br />
1. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension<br />
- Idiopathic PAH (IPAH)<br />
- Heritable<br />
- Drugs/tox<strong>in</strong>s<br />
- Associated PAH (APAH)<br />
connective tissue <strong>disease</strong>s<br />
HIV <strong>in</strong>fection<br />
portal hypertension<br />
congenital heart <strong>disease</strong>s<br />
1*. PVOD/PCH<br />
2. PH 2ry to left heart <strong>disease</strong><br />
- systolic <strong>and</strong> diastolic dysfunction<br />
- valvular<br />
3. PH 2ry to lung <strong>disease</strong><br />
- COPD<br />
- <strong>in</strong>terstitial lung <strong>disease</strong><br />
- sleep disordered breath<strong>in</strong>g<br />
- developmental abnormalities<br />
4. PH due to chronic thrombotic<br />
<strong>and</strong>/or embolic <strong>disease</strong><br />
- proximal CTEPH<br />
- distal CTEPH<br />
- non-thrombotic embolism<br />
5. Miscellaneous<br />
- sarcoid<br />
- PLCH, LAM<br />
- metabolic disorders<br />
Adapted from Dana Po<strong>in</strong>t Classification 2008