Cor pulmonale in a case of infantile Gaucher's disease

Infantile Gaucher's disease presenting as cor pulmonale is rarely reported in pediatric literature. We report a 3.3 year old boy with infantile Gaucher's disease who presented to us as interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension along with features of cor pulmonale. The high resoluti...

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Autores principales: Patra, Soumya, Chatterjee, Sayan, Singhla, Shilpi, Patra, Bijoy, Maheswari, Anu, Seth, Anju
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731876
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.81948
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author Patra, Soumya
Chatterjee, Sayan
Singhla, Shilpi
Patra, Bijoy
Maheswari, Anu
Seth, Anju
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description Infantile Gaucher's disease presenting as cor pulmonale is rarely reported in pediatric literature. We report a 3.3 year old boy with infantile Gaucher's disease who presented to us as interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension along with features of cor pulmonale. The high resolution CT findings were typical of interstitial and airspace disease. Cor pulmonale in this patient was a result of severe pulmonary hypertension.
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spelling pubmed-31250042011-07-01 Cor pulmonale in a case of infantile Gaucher's disease Patra, Soumya Chatterjee, Sayan Singhla, Shilpi Patra, Bijoy Maheswari, Anu Seth, Anju Indian J Endocrinol Metab Case Report Infantile Gaucher's disease presenting as cor pulmonale is rarely reported in pediatric literature. We report a 3.3 year old boy with infantile Gaucher's disease who presented to us as interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension along with features of cor pulmonale. The high resolution CT findings were typical of interstitial and airspace disease. Cor pulmonale in this patient was a result of severe pulmonary hypertension. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3125004/ /pubmed/21731876 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.81948 Text en © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125004/
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