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20956193

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
117
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-19
pubmed:abstractText
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and potentially fatal disease whose management is usually restricted to a few specialised centres. As patients do not necessarily live in the neighbourhood of these centres, daily care and emergencies have to be delegated to first and second lines. Treatment guidelines do not usually provide recommendations for acute emergency situations as evidence is scarce. This short review provides a description of our therapeutic protocols based on available data. A model of transmural organisation of care for PAH patients, currently applied in Belgium, is described. Thereafter, based on an analysis of the reasons of death in the PAH population, a review of the main emergencies is provided. Cardiac arrest and resuscitation, decompensated right heart failure, respiratory failure, arrhythmia, pericardial effusion, haemoptysis, surgery and drug-related adverse events will be discussed successively. Case reports showing the precariousness of PAH patients will enforce our thesis of the need for optimal patient management organisation.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1600-0617
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
204-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Optimising the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension patients: emergency treatments.
pubmed:affiliation
Dept of Pneumology, University Hospitals of Leuven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. marion.delcroix@uzleuven.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review