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Namita Sood, CHEST 2018 – Pulmonary arterial hypertension: diagnosis and current therapies

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Published Online: Oct 11th 2018

Namita Sood (University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, US) discusses challenges and advances in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

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1. What is the definition of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)? (0:10)
2. What are the major challenges in the diagnosis of PAH? (0:43)
3. How is PAH classified and what are the most important diagnostic criteria? (1:24)
4. What are the recommended disease-specific and supportive therapies for PAH? (2:12)
5. What have been the most important advances in the management of PAH in recent years? (2:56)

Speaker disclosure: Namita Sood has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Filmed at the CHEST Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, US, October 2018.

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