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In Vivo Assessment of Pulmonary Arterial Wall Fibrosis by Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A New Prognostic Marker of Adverse Clinical Follow-Up§

BACKGROUND: The aim is to correlate pulmonary arterial (PA) remodeling estimated by PA fibrosis in PA hypertension (PAH) with clinical follow-up. Histology of PA specimens is also performed. METHODS: 19 patients, aged 54±16 (4 men), functional class II-III were studied with right heart catheterizati...

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Autores principales: Domingo, Enric, Grignola, Juan C, Aguilar, Rio, Montero, María Angeles, Arredondo, Christian, Vázquez, Manuel, López-Messeguer, Manuel, Bravo, Carlos, Bouteldja, Nadia, Hidalgo, Cristina, Roman, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23730366
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874306401307010026