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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.
Left heart disease can cause pulmonary hypertension via multiple mechanisms. In the past, a normal ejection fraction and the absence of left-sided valve disease or congenital heart disease provided reassurance that pulmonary hypertension was not related to left-sided heart disease.s the use of agents for IPAH have been expanded to patients with pulmonary hypertension related to connective tissue disease, expansion to use in patients with diastolic heart failure and secondary pulmonary hypertension would be a reasonable avenue for investigation.