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Overcoming Diagnostic Delays in Pulmonary Hypertension with Deep Learning ECG Analysis

      Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a disease diagnosed with a mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) > 20 mmHg [
      • Galiè N
      • McLaughlin VV
      • Rubin LJ
      • Simonneau G.
      An overview of the 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension.
      ]. Early screening for PH is crucial because, if this disease is left untreated, the disease progresses to heart failure and premature death, with a median survival period of two to three years [
      • Galiè N
      • McLaughlin VV
      • Rubin LJ
      • Simonneau G.
      An overview of the 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension.
      ]. The current standard method for PH diagnosis is the right heart catheterization (RHC), but this procedure is invasive and is associated with risks such as bleeding or cardiac arrhythmias [
      • Galiè N
      • McLaughlin VV
      • Rubin LJ
      • Simonneau G.
      An overview of the 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension.
      ]. Other methods used for screening for PH such as echocardiograms are only routinely used in patients with a high prevalence of PH, such as those with systemic sclerosis [
      • Kiely DG
      • Lawrie A
      • Humbert M.
      Screening strategies for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
      ]. However, current approaches are resource intensive and are restricted to patients with a high prevalence of PH. Until recently a population-based approach for screening for PH was not available.

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