ArticlePulmonary circulation2024
Characteristics and risk profiles of patients with pulmonary arterial or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension living permanently at >2500 m of high altitude in Ecuador.
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- Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Latin America: Characteristics, Treatment, and Survival From the LATAM-PAH Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.Pulmonary circulation · 2026Review
- Nocturnal Hypoxaemia in PAH Patients Living at High Altitude Relocated to Low Altitude.Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases · 2026Article
- High altitude pulmonary hypertension: overlap with other types of pulmonary hypertension and implications for treatment.BMJ medicine · 2026Review
- Rare but serious: pulmonary vascular disease around the world.JHLT open · 2025Review
- Characteristics and risk profiles of patients with pulmonary arterial or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension living permanently at >2500 m of high altitude in Ecuador.Pulmonary circulation · 2024Article
- Editorial on "Characteristics and risk profiles of patients with pulmonary arterial or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension living permanently at >2500 m of high altitude in Ecuador".Pulmonary circulation · 2024Article
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Abstract
Over 80 Mio people worldwide live >2500 m, including at least as many patients with pulmonary vascular disease (PVD), defined as pulmonary arterial or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (PAH/CTEPH), as elsewhere (estimated 0.1‰). Whether PVD patients living at high altitude have altered disease characteristics due to hypobaric hypoxia is unknown. In a cross-sectional study conducted at the Hospital Carlos Andrade Marin in Quito, Ecuador, located at 2840 m, we included 36 outpatients with PAH or CTEPH visiting the clinic from January 2022 to July 2023. We collected data on diagnostic right heart catheterization, treatment, and risk factors, including NYHA functional class (FC), 6-min walk distance (6MWD), and NT-brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) at baseline and at last follow-up. Thirty-six PVD patients (83% women, 32 PAH, 4 CTEPH, mean ± SD age 44 ± 13 years, living altitude 2831 ± 58 m) were included and had the following baseline values: PaO
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