Criteria for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension in Patient with COPD
Purpose: | To diagnosis pulmonary hypertension in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using the criteria of Mal. |
Specialty: | Pulmonology & Critical Care Cardiology |
Objective: | other testing, criteria for diagnosis |
ICD-10: | I27.2, J44 |
Description: | Mal reported criteria for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension requires physiologic measurements taken during right heart catheterization. The author is from Hopital Bichat in Paris, France. |
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