Pulmonary hypertension in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a plea for proper phenotyping and further research

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine and German Centre of Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
• ² National Centre Singapore and Duke-National University of Singapore, 5 Hospital Dr, Singapore 16960.
• ³ Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Heart Failure Clinic, CUB Hopital Erasme, Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
• ⁶ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, Sydney St, Chelsea, London SW3 6NP and National Pulmonary Hypertension Service, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, White City, London W12 0HS, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ Department of Pathology and INSERM UMR-S 999, Paris-South University, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis Robinson, 15 Rue Georges Clemenceau, 91400 Orsay, France.
• ⁸ Department of Cardiology, University of Milano, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Piazza Edmondo Malan, 1, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milano, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Speciality Medicine, Bologna University Hospital, Via Zamboni, 33, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹¹ Department of Pneumology, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹² Department of Cardiology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
• ¹³ Centre for Thrombosis and Haemostasis, University Medical Centre Mainz, Langenbeckstraße 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany; and Department of Cardiology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, 69100 Komotini, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiology, University of Göttingen, and German Cardiovascular Research Center (DZHK), Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37099 Göttingen, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiology, DRK-Kliniken Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardiology and Cologne Cardiovascular Research Centre (CCRC), University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50937 Köln, Germany.