Pulmonary Hypertension: Controversial and Emerging Topics

This book is a clinical guide to controversial and emerging topics in  pulmonary hypertension. There are multiple challenges and unanswered  questions encountered by clinicians that evaluate, diagnose and treat  patients with suspected or confirmed pulmonary vascular disease. This  book provides a deep dive into the diagnosis and therapeutics of  pulmonary hypertension supported by the literature and balanced with  personal clinical experience. Expert authors have chosen these specific  topics to address issues where uncertainty and/or controversy exists as  well as highlight areas that are just being incorporated into clinical  practice. These topics include: exercise pulmonary hypertension, sickle  cell disease and pulmonary hypertension, and sarcoid pulmonary  hypertension, among many others. Chapters address the diagnostic and  treatment dilemmas posed by these various clinical entities through  literature review, sharing of expert opinion, and review of recent  guidelines and their applicability to the multiple different nuanced  presentations of pulmonary hypertension. This is an ideal guide for  pulmonologists, cardiologists, and other specialty practitioners caring  for patients with pulmonary hypertension.