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Schistosome infection and its effect on pulmonary circulation

Schistosomiasis is the most common parasitic disease associated with pulmonary hypertension. It induces remodelling via complex inflammatory processes, which eventually produce the clinical manifestation of pulmonary hypertension. The pulmonary hypertension shows clinical signs and symptoms that are...

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Autor principal: Butrous, Ghazwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024947
http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2019.5
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spelling pubmed-64726932019-04-25 Schistosome infection and its effect on pulmonary circulation Butrous, Ghazwan Glob Cardiol Sci Pract Review Article Schistosomiasis is the most common parasitic disease associated with pulmonary hypertension. It induces remodelling via complex inflammatory processes, which eventually produce the clinical manifestation of pulmonary hypertension. The pulmonary hypertension shows clinical signs and symptoms that are not distinguishable from other forms of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation 2019-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6472693/ /pubmed/31024947 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2019.5 Text en Copyright ©2019 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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