New Formula for Predicting Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure Using Systolic Pulmonary Artery Pressure

• Published in: Chest Vol. 126; no. 4; pp. 1313 - 1317
• Main Authors: Chemla, Denis, Castelain, Vincent, Humbert, Marc, Hébert, Jean-Louis, Simonneau, Gérald, Lecarpentier, Yves, Hervé, Philippe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2004; American College of Chest Physicians
• Subjects: Blood Pressure Determination - methods; Cardiovascular disease; Catheters; Doppler effect; Female; hemodynamic; Hemodynamics; Humans; hypertension; Hypertension, Pulmonary - diagnosis; Hypotheses; Intubation; Male; Middle Aged; Patients; pressure; Prospective Studies; pulmonary; Pulmonary arteries; Pulmonary Artery - physiology; Pulmonary hypertension; Systole - physiology; Thromboembolism; CPTE; MPAP; PH; pulmonary; PPH; SPAP; pressure; DPAP; hemodynamic; hypertension

Mean pulmonary artery pressure (MPAP) and systolic pulmonary artery pressure (SPAP) are used interchangeably to define pulmonary hypertension (PH). We tested the hypothesis that the measurement of MPAP and SPAP is redundant in resting humans over a wide pressure range. Prospective, observational stu...