A patient with both extrahepatic portal hypertension and primary pulmonary hypertension is reported. The pulmonary hypertension developed without a surgical portal-systemic shunt, and at autopsy there was no evidence of a large spontaneous shunt. This association of pulmonary arterial hypertension a
An unusual case of pulmonary hypertension in a young male
β Scribed by Carlo Rostagno; Stefania Ciolli; Domenico Prisco
- Publisher
- Springer Milan
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1828-0447
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