
SSc Pulmonary Hypertension
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The Hemodynamic Definition of Pulmonary Hypertension
In the time period from designing the study and collecting the data there was a change in hemodynamic definitions for pulmonary hypertension. So it is an important point and it was one that we were keen to emphasize in our paper. In 2018 the world symposium of pulmonary hypertension suggested that we should drop the mean pulmonary pressure threshold to above 20 millimeters of mercury. But I think the trends that we see really probably would be very similar for those other thresholds.
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