Pulmonary arterial compliance: How and why should we measure it?

This relationship predicts that in the early stages of pulmonary arterial hypertension a small increase in pulmonary vascular resistance is accompanied by a fairly significant reduction in compliance; on the contrary, in more advanced stages of the disease, vascular stiffness has already reached the maximum limits and any further increase in PVR is not associated with further reduction in PCa.

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