Key Symptoms

Pulmonary hypertension is a chimera. Symptoms and signs of are often vague and nonspecific, particularly in the early stage of disease. The mean time from onset of the first symptom to diagnosis is about 2 years with a maximum of up to 20 years.

 

The classical triad consists of

   
 
  • Increasing dyspnea on exertion
  • without gross abnormalities on chest X-ray
  • without gross abnormalities in lung function testing

 

Initially patients may present with

   
 
  • fatigue
  • depression
  • or weight gain only


One third complain about

   
 
  • chest pain
  • palpitations
  • syncope
  • peripheral edema

 

Less common symptoms include

   
 
  • cough
  • hemoptysis
  • hoarseness (due to compression of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve by a dilated pulmonary artery = Ortner’s syndrome)
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SGPH-Symposium, 2. September 2010, Hotel Bristol in Genf:
"Hypertension artérielle pulmonaire: Comment ne pas passer à côté d’une maladie émergente?"  Mehr

 

Umfrage:

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Vereinsgründung:

Schweizer PH-Verein für Menschen mit pulmonaler Hypertonie gegründet. Pressemitteilung PDF

Next SSPH Workshop: October 28th, 2010
Haus der Universität in Berne, details will follow.

SSPH Workshop 2010: May 7-8, 2010

The SSPH workshop on May 7-8, 2010 in Lucerne did consist of an update of the website with the following topics:

  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Follow-up
  • Patients part

Many thanks to all the participants: The workshop from 7-8 May 2010 was a succesfull event, a lot of precious work has been done. Adaptations of the website content will soon be online.

 

4th international Congress of the SSPH

October 30 - 31, 2009



Link to the congress presentations as video streaming on swiss-webconferencing.ch .

Link to the congress photo-gallery

 

 



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