Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

A 58-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with a chief complaint of exertional dyspnea. Bronchoscopy failed to establish a diagnosis, and the patient subsequently died suddenly due to respiratory insufficiency because of advanced pulmonary hypertension (PH). The pathological diagnosis at auto...

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Autores principales: Saito, Minako, Ohshima, Nobuharu, Matsui, Hirotoshi, Hebisawa, Akira, Ohta, Ken
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5577081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28768975
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.56.7869
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author Saito, Minako
Ohshima, Nobuharu
Matsui, Hirotoshi
Hebisawa, Akira
Ohta, Ken
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description A 58-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with a chief complaint of exertional dyspnea. Bronchoscopy failed to establish a diagnosis, and the patient subsequently died suddenly due to respiratory insufficiency because of advanced pulmonary hypertension (PH). The pathological diagnosis at autopsy was pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD). PVOD is difficult to diagnose antemortem and has a poor prognosis. Lung transplantation is the only curative treatment for PVOD.
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spelling pubmed-55770812017-09-01 Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension Saito, Minako Ohshima, Nobuharu Matsui, Hirotoshi Hebisawa, Akira Ohta, Ken Intern Med Case Report A 58-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with a chief complaint of exertional dyspnea. Bronchoscopy failed to establish a diagnosis, and the patient subsequently died suddenly due to respiratory insufficiency because of advanced pulmonary hypertension (PH). The pathological diagnosis at autopsy was pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD). PVOD is difficult to diagnose antemortem and has a poor prognosis. Lung transplantation is the only curative treatment for PVOD. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5577081/ /pubmed/28768975 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.56.7869 Text en Copyright © 2017 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Saito, Minako
Ohshima, Nobuharu
Matsui, Hirotoshi
Hebisawa, Akira
Ohta, Ken
Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
title Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
title_full Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
title_fullStr Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
title_full_unstemmed Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
title_short Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
title_sort sudden death in a patient with pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (pvod) and severe pulmonary hypertension
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5577081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28768975
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.56.7869
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