Pulmonary hypertension is a condition of increased blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath, fainting, tiredness, chest pain, swelling of the legs, and a fast heartbeat, and onset is typically gradual. Under the definition adopted at the 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension in 2018, a patient is considered to have the condition if the mean pulmonary arterial pressure at rest exceeds 20 millimeters of mercury and pulmonary vascular resistance exceeds 3 Wood units.
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ICD-10 ChapterIX: Diseases of the Circulatory System 1 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route First Described Connections
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Source Atrial septostomy (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: ICD-10
WikipediaList of chapters, Chapter IXQuote, List of chapters, Chapter IX
Diseases of the circulatory system
2. World Health Organization: Noncommunicable diseases (fact sheet)
World Health OrganizationLead section, transmission-route statement (inferred from disease-category)
The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes.
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The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes.
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Atrial septostomy (Wikipedia)
Treated By: Atrial Septostomy, Lead: treats Pulmonary HypertensionQuote, Treated By: Atrial Septostomy, Lead: treats Pulmonary Hypertension
Atrial septostomy has also seen limited use as a surgical treatment for pulmonary hypertension.
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