I27.2 I27.0
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Patients with confirmed diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension will be followed every 6 months over a period of 3 years by documentation of clinical, imaging, and laboratory examination results.
Sponsors
Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) Confirmed diagnosis of pulmonary Hypertension and (2) written informed consent of study participants or their legal representative.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Anticipated non-compliance or inability to adhere to study protocol (deficient willingness or ability to cooperate).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| This prospective non-interventional study aims to evaluate the diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic strategies as well as the clinical long-term course of patients with confirmed diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| (1) To determine the prognostic value of the following parameters at diagnosis in relation to the patients’ clinical long-term outcome: (a) clinical (symptoms, clinical signs, predisposing (history) criteria and comorbidities), (b) imaging (echocardiography, if indicated: V/Q lung scan, computed tomographic (CT) angiography, magnetic resonance tomographic (MRT) angiography, conventional selective pulmonary angiography), and (c) laboratory (biomarker tests); (2) to find out optimal „cut-off“-values of different biomarkers from the categories mentioned above and to develop novel algorithms for risk stratification; (3) to analyze the course of these parameters or biomarkers as indicators of the response to therapy; (4) to identify novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers (under development and resulting from translational CTH research) in different patient groups of PH; (5) to investigate the influence of established and new therapeutic substances/schemes, and/or surgical/interventional therapies, on the prognosis, the functional status, and life quality of patients and to gather the progresses related to PH management on the long-term outcome. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactStavros Konstantinides
Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Outcome results
None listed