Pulmonary Hypertension Associated With Heart Failure: A Challenge of Prediction or Persistence?

The ability to predict whether the pulmonary vascular bed will remodel with medical therapy, intravenous inotropes, or mechanical support remains a clinical challenge. Published reports suggest there is no predictive measure that precludes or guarantees normalization of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and no single PH therapy is demonstrably superior to others with multiple drug and device therapies required in some cases. In addition, measurement...