Reply to "a pediatric perspective on the TAPSE/PASP ratio in pulmonary arterial hypertension"

Int J Cardiol. 2019 Mar 1:278:240-241. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.12.040.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany. Electronic address: khodr.tello@innere.med.uni-giessen.de.
² Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany; Department of Pneumology, Kerckhoff Heart, Rheuma and Thoracic Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany; Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany.

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Keywords: PASP; Pediatric; Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Right ventricular function; Right ventricular-pulmonary arterial coupling; TAPSE.

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