American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. · Dec 2014
Assessing Pulmonary Hypertensive Vascular Disease in Childhood: Data from the Spanish Registry.
There is a lack of knowledge regarding the epidemiology, clinical characterization, and survival in pediatric pulmonary hypertension. ⋯ In moderate to severe pediatric pulmonary hypertension, the prognosis is better in pulmonary arterial hypertension than in other Nice categories. In pediatric pulmonary hypertension age at diagnosis younger than 2 years is a risk factor for mortality, in addition to the previously established risk factors.