Registry of Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Presented to Ain-Shams University Hospitals

Abstract

egistries of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) have been instrumental in characterizing the presentation and history of the disease providing a basis for prognostication. Since initial accumulation of data conducted in the 1980s, subsequent registry databases have yielded information about the demographic factors, treatment, and survival and have permitted comparisons between populations in different eras and environments. Inclusion of patients with all subtypes of PAH has also allowed comparisons of these subpopulations. Our registry included 150 patients who were presented to the structural and congenital heart disease unit in Ain shams university hospitals, for medical treatment, catheter or surgical intervention or were following up in the cardiology department clinic starting from 1st of May 2018 till the end of May 2019. The pediatric age group included 105 patients, 55 males (52.4%) and 50 females (47.6%). The mean age of the group was 5 years. All our patients were diagnosed by echocardiograph and in 81% diagnosis was confirmed by right heart catheterization.