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Lead
Mayo Clinic
Age
18–99
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
Consecutive patients aged ≥ 18 years with PAH as dictated by a comprehensive examination and echocardiography will be included for enrollment.
You may not be if
Age \< 18 years
Pregnancy
Mechanical ventilation
Acute or chronic renal failure (creatinine clearance \< 30 ml/min or requiring renal replacement therapy)
Inability to perform MRI (i.e. claustrophobia, severe obesity (\> 150 kg), device incompatible with MRI)
Significant arrhythmia that precludes adequate ECG-gating for the MRI (i.e. atrial fibrillation with highly variable cycle lengths)
Prior heart or lung transplantation
Left ventricular systolic (ejection fraction \< 50%) or diastolic failure (based on Framingham criteria for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction)
Significant left-sided valvular disease (≥ moderate aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral regurgitation) or prior valve surgery
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