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Foreword: right ventricular function and pulmonary hypertension
1 Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension Unit, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
2 Department of Chest Medicine, Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland
* Corresponding author. E-mail address: mangomezs@telefonica.net
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The last decade has been a period of great advances in the field of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Many randomized clinical trials have assessed the efficacy of emerging medications developed to modify the fatal course of this disease. All those clinical investigation has been devoted to improve the exercise tolerance by acting on the pulmonary arterioles.
Although PAH is a disease of pulmonary vessels, it predominantly affects