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Certain heart diseases. Heart diseases, including aortic valve disease, left heart failure, mitral valve disease, and congenital heart disease, can also cause pulmonary hypertension. Thromboembolic disease. A blood clot in a large pulmonary artery can result in the development of pulmonary hypertension.
Natural history of pulmonary hypertension in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Pulmonary hypertension in COPD progresses over time and its severity correlates with the degree of airflow obstruction and the impairment of pulmonary gas exchange 6, 7.