background: pulmonary arterial hypertension is a complication of most congenital heart diseases. we sought to assess the effect of sildenafil on patients suffering from pulmonary arterial hypertension in association with congenital heart disease on the basis of clinical and echocardiographic parameters and compare the catheterization and treatment results so as to evaluate the predictive value ...

the purpose of this investigation was to assess the effect of captopril on both systemic (p.a) and pulmonary arterial pressures (ppa) in patients with high-altitude pulmonary hypertension (haph). seventeen patients (mean age 44±6.8 years) with haph and mild to moderate systemic arterial hypertension were included in the study. all patients underwent right heart catheterization with measurements...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension in children. A. Widlitz, R.J. Barst. #ERS Journals Ltd 2003. ABSTRACT: For physicians to admit that a group of patients remains for whom no cure is available in modern medicine is intellectually unsatisfying. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare condition. Because the symptoms are nonspecific and the physical finding can be subtle, the disease is often diagn...

Although pulmonary arterial hypertension is usually associated with advanced stages of sarcoidosis, its occurrence in early stage disease is rare. Herein, a case of associated pulmonary arterial hypertension in the setting of Hashitoxicosis and stage II pulmonary sarcoidosis is reported. The case of associated pulmonary arterial hypertension occurred in a young female without clinically signifi...

Takayasu disease is a chronic vasculitis of the large vessels. It rare in sub- Saharan Africa and probably under-diagnosed. Arterial hypertension (AH) frequent finding. We report case 46-year-old man with revealed by hypertension. The American College Rheumatology (ACR) criteria were used for diagnosis, 4 out 6 criteria. Echodoppler angioscanner showed signs left subclavian stenosis circumferen...