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Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD
New York University
 

Pulmonary Hypertension

Scope
Summary of pulmonary hypertension classification by the World Health Organization promulgated at the 4th World Symposium on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension held in Dana Point, California in 2008.

The Dana Point classification expands on the Venice and Evian classifications introduced in 2003 at the 3rd World Symposium on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, and in 1998 at the 2nd World Symposium on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension held in Evian, France, respectively.

 

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Group 1

 

Reference
Simonneau G, Robbins IM, Beghetti M, Channick RN, Delcroix M, Denton CP, Elliott CG, Gaine SP, Gladwin MT, Jing ZC, Krowka MJ, Langleben D, Nakanishi N, Souza R. Updated clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension.  J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Jun 30;54(1 Suppl):S43-54.

Simonneau G, Galič N, Rubin LJ, Langleben D, Seeger W, Domenighetti G, Gibbs S, Lebrec D, Speich R, Beghetti M, Rich S, Fishman A. Clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2004;43:(12 Suppl S):5S–12S.