Kidney pulmonary hypertension: another road on the map?
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Kidney pulmonary hypertension: another road on the map?
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious disorder that worsens the course of chronic heart, lung or systemic diseases. However the need to discriminate PH, a pathophysiological condition, from pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which is a rare clinical condition, has been recently stressed [1]. PH is defined as an increase in mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PĀP) > 25 mm Hg at rest, as ass...
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عنوان ژورنال: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2049-6958
DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-6-3-150