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Pulmonary Hypertension

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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in children is a distinct entity related to lung growth and development. Significant advances in PH-targeted therapy have resulted in improved outcomes (contemporary 5-year survival 60–81% compared to 35% prior to advancements in treatment options); nevertheless, children with PH who present for procedures requiring sedation or general anesthesia present a challenge to the pediatric anesthesiologist. This chapter will discuss the perioperative care of the pediatric patient with PH. Table 48.1 summarizes essential elements of providing care in newborns, children and adolescents with pulmonary hypertension.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota, Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Benjamin Kloesel M.D., M.S.B.S. & Kumar Belani MBBS, MS, FACA, FAAP

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  1. Hospital University Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Basavana G. Goudra

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Michael Duggan

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Vidya Chidambaran

  4. University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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  5. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Elizabeth Duggan

  6. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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  7. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Preet Mohinder Singh

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Kloesel, B., Belani, K. (2018). Pulmonary Hypertension. In: Goudra, B., et al. Anesthesiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74766-8_48

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