Editorial

Pulmonary artery denervation - the suspense continues?

EuroIntervention 2023;19:623-624. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-E-23-00033

Felix Mahfoud
Felix Mahfoud1, MD, MA; Felix Götzinger1, MD
1. Department of Internal Medicine III - Cardiology, Angiology, and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany
The 2022 European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Respiratory Society (ERS) Guidelines for the management of pulmonary hypertension (PH) define PH as a mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) of >20 mmHg at rest, as determined by an invasive measurement in the pulmonary arteries (PA)1. PH is a multifaceted disease and often an undetected cause of dyspnoea, fatigue, and loss of exercise capacity2. The prevalence of PH in the global population is about 1% and is continuously increasing3. According to the ESC/ERS and the World Health Organization (WHO), PH is classified and divided into 5 groups. PH Group 1 encompasses ...

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