Isolated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Janus' Faces of Hyperthyroidism

We describe a 54-year-old woman with isolated pulmonary arterial hypertension accompanied by hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease. Her pulmonary artery hypertension resolved spontaneously after restoration of euthyroidism. This case suggests that hyperthyroidism should be considered a reversi...

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Autores principales: Kang, Beodeul, Cho, Deok-Kyu, Byun, Ki Hyun, Eun, Lucy Youngmin, Cho, Yun-Hyeong
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Cardiology 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19949607
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2009.39.4.168
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author Kang, Beodeul
Cho, Deok-Kyu
Byun, Ki Hyun
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Cho, Yun-Hyeong
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description We describe a 54-year-old woman with isolated pulmonary arterial hypertension accompanied by hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease. Her pulmonary artery hypertension resolved spontaneously after restoration of euthyroidism. This case suggests that hyperthyroidism should be considered a reversible cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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spelling pubmed-27718102009-11-30 Isolated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Janus' Faces of Hyperthyroidism Kang, Beodeul Cho, Deok-Kyu Byun, Ki Hyun Eun, Lucy Youngmin Cho, Yun-Hyeong Korean Circ J Case Report We describe a 54-year-old woman with isolated pulmonary arterial hypertension accompanied by hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease. Her pulmonary artery hypertension resolved spontaneously after restoration of euthyroidism. This case suggests that hyperthyroidism should be considered a reversible cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The Korean Society of Cardiology 2009-04 2009-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2771810/ /pubmed/19949607 http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2009.39.4.168 Text en Copyright © 2009 The Korean Society of Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kang, Beodeul
Cho, Deok-Kyu
Byun, Ki Hyun
Eun, Lucy Youngmin
Cho, Yun-Hyeong
Isolated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Janus' Faces of Hyperthyroidism
title Isolated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Janus' Faces of Hyperthyroidism
title_full Isolated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Janus' Faces of Hyperthyroidism
title_fullStr Isolated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Janus' Faces of Hyperthyroidism
title_full_unstemmed Isolated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Janus' Faces of Hyperthyroidism
title_short Isolated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Janus' Faces of Hyperthyroidism
title_sort isolated pulmonary arterial hypertension-janus' faces of hyperthyroidism
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19949607
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2009.39.4.168
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