Index of Pulmonary Vascular Disease (IPVD) of Yamaki and Tezuka for a Patient with Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension
Purpose: | To determine the index of pulmonary vascular disease (IPVD) for a patient with congenital heart disease (CHD) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). |
Specialty: | Pulmonology Cardiology |
Objective: | severity, prognosis, stage, complications |
ICD-10: | I27 |
Description: | Yamaki and Tezuka developed an index of pulmonary vascular disease (IPVD) to describe vascular changes in pulmonary arteries seen in patients with congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. The IPVD is a weighted average of the histologic changes seen in pulmonary arteries included in a lung biopsy. The authors are from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. |
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