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List all of the reasons you can for elevated RV systolic pressure.
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- PH:
o Precapillary: primary
o Capillary: PTE, HW, primary lung disease (fibrosis, interstitial, bronchitis/bronchomalacia)
o Post capillary: left heart disease → MV/Ao stenosis, MMVD, AI - L to R shunting: VSD, ASD
- RVOT obstruction: PS, TOF, branched PA stenosis
- Double chamber RV
- TVD
- Cardiomyopathies: DCM, ARVC, RCM/HCM
- Pericardial effusion/constrictive pericardial dz
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