Praque, Czech Republic Clinical Trials

V Vojtech Melenovsky, MD, PhD

Mechanisms of Pulmonary Vascular Dysfunction in Heart Failure

Heart failure (HF) patients often develop pulmonary hypertension (PH) that leads to transition into a biventricular HF with poor prognosis. There are two PH components: 1) passive transmission of increased left atrial pressure, 2) heart failure (HF) related pulmonary vascular dysfunction (PVD) with increased vascular resistance. Intriguingly, only some, but …