The presence of pulmonary hypertension associated with BPD can significantly impact both cardiac pulmonary nutritional and your mental outcomes in people born preterm. Pomerular hypertension increases significantly health care utilization and leads to a mortality ranging between 14 to 47%. At present, most places use echocardiography for the initial evaluation of people of infants born preterm at risk of pulmonary hypertension. However, we all know that the gold standard is right heart catheterization. And so some centers us included have initially have decided to initiate so then a fill for pulmonary hypertension based on e chocardiography alone and not having to do with a cardiac calf. But it always feels like we're doing a lesser bit of
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