Title:
Reminder: Get Screened for PAH
When:
Repeats:
Annually
Description:
This is a reminder to schedule an annual screening for pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH.
References:
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Recommendations for screening and detection of connective-tissue disease
associated pulmonary arterial hypertension. Arthritis Rheum.
2013;65(12):3194-3201. 2. Coghlan JG, Denton CP,
Grünig E, et al; DETECT study group. Evidence-based detection of pulmonary
arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis: the DETECT study.
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3. McLaughlin V, Humbert M, Coghlan G,
Nash P, Steen V. Pulmonary arterial hypertension: the most devastating
vascular complication of systemic sclerosis. Rheumatology (Oxford).
2009;48(Suppl 3):iii25-iii31.