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PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN CASES WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

MUHAMMAD UMER IQBAL, MUHAMMAD SHOAIB LATIF, MUHAMMAD AHMAD

Objective; To determine the frequency of pulmonary hypertension in cases with COPD. Methodology: This was a cross sectional study conducted at Medical departments of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. Lahore and DHQ teaching hospital, Sargodha during June 2019 to December 2019. There were total 70 cases of COPD of both genders with age range of 40 to 70 years. COPD was diagnosed as per COPD GOLD guidelines 2016 on PFTs. Detailed sociodemographic and clinical data was collected. Then the pulmonary HTN was labelled on transthoracic echocardiography having resting pulmonary artery pressure of more than 25 mmHg was labelled as pulmonary hypertension. Results: In this study there were total 70 cases out of which 59 (84.29%) were males and 11 (15.71%) females. The mean age was 56.45±7.35 years and mean duration of COPD was 5.72±2.37 years. Pulmonary HTN was seen in 44 (62.86%) out of 70 cases. There was no significant difference in terms of gender, age groups and duration of COPD in terms of pulmonary HTN. But this HTN was significantly high in cases of moderate, severe and very severe COPD. Conclusion: Pulmonary Hypertension is common in cases with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and it is significantly associated with severe form of disease. Key words. COPD, Pulmonary HTN, PFTs