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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 24.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2017 Dec 15;137(17):1796–1810. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.031608

Table 2. Pulmonary vascular remodeling by study group.

Normal (N=12) HF-PH (N=108) PVOD (N=17) P Value HF vs PVOD P Value HF vs Control
Arteries - %MT* 6.9 (0.8) 11.0 (0.3) 15.0 (1.4) 0.005 <0.0001
Arteries - %IT* 4.9 (1.0) 14.9 (0.8) 31.1 (3.8) <0.0001 <0.0001
Veins - % IT* 14.0 (1.3) 24.9 (0.8) 43.9 (3.5) <0.0001 <0.0001
IV - %IT* 10.6 (0.8) 25.8 (1.0) 50.0 (2.3) <0.0001 <0.0001
% of Veins with arterialization 5.3 (0.5, 6.1) 16.4 (9.0, 25.0) 7.8 (4.4, 12.1) 0.02 0.0002
Intimal character distribution within patients
Arteries - % Loose Fibrosis/Hyalinosis 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0.87 0.46
Veins - % Loose Fibrosis/Hyalinosis 31 (24, 43) 25 (11, 49) 2 (0, 7) <0.0001 0.66
IV - % Loose Fibrosis/Hyalinosis 0 (0, 25) 0 (0, 12) 0 (0, 0) 0.07 0.85
Intimal morphology distribution within patients
Arteries
% Concentric 0 (0, 0) 4 (0, 15) 20 (11, 40) <0.0001 0.001
% Occluded 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) <0.0001 1.0
% Recanalized/webs 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 4 (0, 7) <0.0001 0.76
Veins
% Concentric 36 (27, 59) 53 (39, 66) 68 (55, 76) 0.002 0.07
% Occluded 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 7 (2, 17) <0.0001 1.0
% Recanalized/webs 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 1.5 (0.4, 7) <0.0001 1.0
Indeterminate vessels
% Concentric 50 (17, 60) 54 (33, 73) 66 (59, 84) 0.05 0.20
% Occluded 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 2 (0, 6) <0.0001 1.0
% Recanalized/webs 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 6 (1, 9) <0.0001 0.77

Data are shown as median (interquartile range), unless otherwise noted.

*

Means and p values estimated from mixed model to account for repeated measures within patients. Data summarized as mean (standard error of the mean) from these models.

Equal to 0% for all observations (no variability).