Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), endorsed by the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)

European Heart Journal - Tập 30 Số 20 - Trang 2493-2537 - 2009
Nazzareno Galiè1, Marius M. Hoeper, Marc Humbert, Adam Torbicki, J.-L. Vachiéry, Joan Albert Barberà, Maurice Beghetti, Paul Corris, Seán Gaine, J. Simon R. Gibbs, M. A. Gomez-Sanchez, Guillaume Jondeau, Walter Klepetko, Christian Opitz, A. J. Peacock, Leona J. Rubin, Michael J. Zellweger, G. Simonneau, A. Vahanian, Pier D. Lambiase, Jeroen J. Bax, Claudio Ceconi, V. Dean, Gerasimos Filippatos, Christian Funck‐Brentano, Richard Hobbs, Peter Kearney, T. McDonagh, K. McGregor, Bogdan A. Popescu, Z. Reiner, Udo Sechtem, P. A. Sirnes, Michał Tendera, P. Vardas, Petr Widimský, N. Al Attar, Felicita Andreotti, M. Aschermann, Riccardo Asteggiano, Raymond L. Benza, Rolf M.F. Berger, Dominique Bonnet, Marion Delcroix, Luke Howard, Anastasia Kitsiou, Iréne Lang, Aldo P. Maggioni, Jens Erik Nielsen‐Kudsk, M. Park, Pasquale Perrone Filardi, Susanna Price, María Teresa Subirana Domenech, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, J Zamorano
1Institute of Cardiology, Bologna University Hospital, Via Massarenti, 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy.

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