Provides updated guidelines and a revised diagnostic algorithm for the evaluation, screening, and referral of patients with suspected pulmonary hypertension.
Clinicians should adopt the revised diagnostic algorithm and high-risk screening recommendations; extends prior guidelines with updated evaluation pathways.
A revised diagnostic algorithm provides guidelines for the diagnosis of patients with suspected pulmonary hypertension, both prior to and following referral to expert centres, and includes recommendations for expedited referral of high-risk or complicated patients and patients with confounding comorbidities. New recommendations for screening high-risk groups are given, and current diagnostic tools and emerging diagnostic technologies are reviewed.
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