Impact of the new definition of pulmonary hypertension according to world symposium of pulmonary hypertension 2018 on diagnosis of post-capillary pulmonary hypertension

The World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension (WSPH) in 2018 recommended new definitions of pulmonary hypertension (PH). We investigated the impact of the updated definition on prevalence of PH due to left heart disease (PH-LHD).The data of right heart catheterizations in patients with suspected PH-LHD between January 2008 and July 2015 was retrospectively analyzed applying different definitions. The number of patients diagnosed by the updated...