Vascular reactivity and pulmonary hypertension in systemic sclerosis
✍ Scribed by A. Rozkovec; R. Bernstein; R. A. Asherson; C. M. Oakley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
The etiology of scleroderma remains unknown. However, it is believed that the vascular lesions found in involved organs have a pathogenesis related to endothelial cell injury (1). Pulmonary hypertension is the most common cause of acute dyspnea in patients with systemic sclerosis and is thought to
## Abstract ## Objective Exercise‐induced pulmonary hypertension (PH) may represent an early but clinically relevant phase in the spectrum of pulmonary vascular disease. There are limited data on the prevalence of exercise‐induced PH determined by right heart catheterization in scleroderma spectru