Via practica 4/2012

Pulmonary arterial hypertension: a rare, serious, but treatable cause of exertional dyspnea

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare but serious disease that is either single or accompanied by other disease entities. The aim of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the pulmonary arterial hypertension reaching from pathology to treatment and it can be used as a framework for further detailed study.

Keywords: pulmonary arterial hypertension, classification, pathogenesis, diagnostics, treatment.