Abby M. Krichman

TL;DR: Compared with patients meeting the traditional hemodynamic definition of PAH, patients with a PCWP of 16 to 18 mm Hg were older, more obese, had a lower 6-min walk distance, and had a higher incidence of systemic hypertension, sleep apnea, renal insufficiency, and diabetes.

TL;DR: There was a striking preponderance of women, and REVEAL patients were more likely to be obese, compared with NIH and contemporary European and UK registries, and the difference in HIV-associated PAH between REVEal and other non-US contemporary registries warrant further investigation.

TL;DR: The Registry to Evaluate Early and Long-term PAH Disease Management (REVEAL) has been designed to meet the need for current information about patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and to better define and understand PAH and to assess the consequences of treatment strategies.

TL;DR: Airway disease and emphysema detected by CT scanning are inversely related in patients with severe COPD and airway wall phenotypes were influenced by gender and associated with lung function in subjects with severe emphySEma.

TL;DR: The results suggest that an LAS model that includes both 6-MWD and mRAP better discriminates waitlist urgency for patients with PAH than the current LAS.