Pulmonary vascular involvement in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Is there a pulmonary vascular phenotype?

G Kovacs, A Agusti, JA Barberà, B Celli… - American journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a multifaceted disease in which the
pulmonary vessels are often affected (1, 2). Mild pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common …

Phenotypes in pulmonary hypertension

J Weatherald, AR Hemnes, BA Maron… - European …, 2024 - publications.ersnet.org
The clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension (PH) has guided diagnosis and
treatment of patients with PH for several decades. Discoveries relating to underlying …

Transformer-based 3D U-Net for pulmonary vessel segmentation and artery-vein separation from CT images

Y Wu, S Qi, M Wang, S Zhao, H Pang, J Xu… - Medical & Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Transformer-based methods have led to the revolutionizing of multiple computer vision
tasks. Inspired by this, we propose a transformer-based network with a channel-enhanced …

Severe pulmonary hypertension associated with lung disease is characterised by a loss of small pulmonary vessels on quantitative computed tomography

D Alkhanfar, Y Shahin, F Alandejani… - ERJ open …, 2022 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with chronic lung disease (CLD)
predicts reduced functional status, clinical worsening and increased mortality, with patients …

Quantitative CT evaluation of small pulmonary vessels has functional and prognostic value in pulmonary hypertension

Y Shahin, S Alabed, D Alkhanfar, J Tschirren… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background The in vivo relationship between peel pulmonary vessels, small pulmonary
vessels, and pulmonary hypertension (PH) is not fully understood. Purpose To quantitatively …

NOX4 expression and distal arteriolar remodeling correlate with pulmonary hypertension in COPD

X Guo, Y Fan, J Cui, B Hao, L Zhu, X Sun, J He… - BMC pulmonary …, 2018 - Springer
Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) is suggested as the consequence of emphysematous destruction of vascular bed …

Emerging phenotypes of pulmonary hypertension associated with COPD: a field guide

AR García, L Piccari - Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Correct phenotyping is key to appropriate management of PH associated with COPD. The
lack of evidence regarding the use of pulmonary vasodilators in PH-COPD may be due to …

Assessing pulmonary hypertension in COPD. Is there a role for computed tomography?

F Coste, I Benlala, G Dournes, PO Girodet… - … Journal of Chronic …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common complication of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Reference …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of pulmonary vessel volumes on low-dose computed tomography in a healthy male Chinese population: the effects of aging and smoking

X Sun, X Meng, P Zhang, L Wang, Y Ren… - … Imaging in Medicine …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background This study sought to determine pulmonary vascular volumes (PVVs) on low-
dose computed tomography (LDCT) in a healthy male Chinese population and analyze the …

The CT pulmonary vascular parameters and disease severity in COPD patients on acute exacerbation: a correlation analysis

T Yang, C Chen, Z Chen - BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background It is necessary to analyze the CT pulmonary vascular parameters and disease
severity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients to provide evidence …