New European Guidelines On Pulmonary Hypertension Provide New 6-Group Clinical Definition

New 2009 Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension have been made public. The Guidelines have been jointly produced by a Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS); the Task Force also included experts from the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).