Chest X-ray features facilitate screening for pulmonary hypertension caused by fibrosing mediastinitis.
Mingfang ZhouBo LiYaling ChenAqian WangYining ZhuYu LiHongling SuJingchun FanYan ZhangYunshan CaoPublished in: Therapeutic advances in chronic disease (2022)
In this study, atelectasis was the most specific and accurate CXR characteristic for identifying PH-FM in the PH patients. The combination of atelectasis, pleural effusion, prominent right heart border, tuberculosis, and lnBNP constituted a prediction model that distinguished the PH-FM patients from the PH-non-FM ones with good performance.
Keyphrases
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