QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF HYPERTENSIVE PULMONARY ARTERIAL CHANGE
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Pathologica Japonica
- Vol. 29 (1), 61-66
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1827.1979.tb01292.x
Abstract
A new method to quantitatively evaluate pulmonary aterial change in human pulmonary hypertension is presented. Hypertensive pulmonary arterial changes ar classified into 4 grades according to severity. A score from 1-4 is given to each arterial change according to the grading. An index of pulmonary vascular disease is then defined as a relative mean value of all scores. This index accurately expresses the grade of pulmonary arterial change in the whole pulmonary arterial system in any given case and makes possible a detailed statistical analysis of many cases.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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