Comment to the study Evidence-based detection of pulmonary arterial hypertension in patients with systemic sclerosis: study DETECT

Abstract

Study DETECT shows, that occurrence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis is much more frequent than other studies have proven and that it can be identified even before development of major symptoms.

Keywords

• pulmonary arterial hypertension
• systemic sclerosis
• echocardiography
• pulmonary function tests