Acute Vasoreactivity Testing With Nicardipine in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

• Main Authors: Yukihiro Saito (Author), Kazufumi Nakamura (Author), Katsumasa Miyaji (Author), Satoshi Akagi (Author), Hiroki Mizoguchi (Author), Aiko Ogawa (Author), Soichiro Fuke (Author), Hideki Fujio (Author), Takahiko Kiyooka (Author), Satoshi Nagase (Author), Kunihisa Kohno (Author), Hiroshi Morita (Author), Kengo F Kusano (Author), Hiromi Matsubara (Author), Tohru Ohe (Author), Hiroshi Ito (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Acute vasoreactivity testing for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has been reported to be useful to identify patients with sustained beneficial response to oral calcium-channel blockers (CCBs), but there is a risk of exacerbation during the testing with oral CCBs. Therefore, we de...