The investigation and diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in adults with congenital heart disease

Table 2 Hemodynamic classification of pre- and post-capillary pulmonary hypertension

Pulmonary Hypertension	Pre-capillary PH	Isolated post-capillary PH	Combined post-capillary and pre-capillary PH
mPAP >20 mmHg ^a	mPAP >20 mmHg AND PAWP ≤15 mmHg ^a	mPAP >20mmHg AND PAWP >15 mmHg ^a	mPAP >20 mmHg AND PAWP >15 mmHg with DPG ≥7 mmHg AND/OR PVR ≥3 WU^a

Reproduced with permission of the © ESC & ERS 2019. European Respiratory Journal Oct 2015, 46 (4) 903-975; 10.1183/13993003.01032-2015 [1]
Abbreviations: mPAP Mean pulmonary artery pressure, PAWP Pulmonary artery wedge pressure, PH Pulmonary hypertension, PVR Pulmonary vascular resistance [1]
^a A new haemodynamic definition has been proposed recently in the Proceedings of the 6^th World Symposium on PH [21]

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