Association of echocardiography-defined pulmonary hypertension and prognosis in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma

Pulmonary hypertension is a common but rarely recognized comorbidity of multiple myeloma. A retrospective study at Capital Medical University (Beijing, China) found that baseline echocardiography-defined pulmonary hypertension in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma was prevalent (12.7% of patients) and was an adverse prognostic factor for PFS and OS.