Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease: A Rare Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension

Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) is a rare entity that is usually mistaken with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) but is considered class I′ of PAH. It is important to subclassify PVOD and distinguish it from PAH as treatment with vasodilators in PVOD patients is controversial and may be...

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Autores principales: Hajouli, Said, Moustafa, Muhamad Alhaj, Memoli, Jessica S. Wang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31010327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619840375
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description Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) is a rare entity that is usually mistaken with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) but is considered class I′ of PAH. It is important to subclassify PVOD and distinguish it from PAH as treatment with vasodilators in PVOD patients is controversial and may be fatal. In this article, we describe a case of PVOD and how we diagnosed it.
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spelling pubmed-64809942019-04-30 Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease: A Rare Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension Hajouli, Said Moustafa, Muhamad Alhaj Memoli, Jessica S. Wang J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) is a rare entity that is usually mistaken with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) but is considered class I′ of PAH. It is important to subclassify PVOD and distinguish it from PAH as treatment with vasodilators in PVOD patients is controversial and may be fatal. In this article, we describe a case of PVOD and how we diagnosed it. SAGE Publications 2019-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6480994/ /pubmed/31010327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619840375 Text en © 2019 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease: A Rare Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension
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title_fullStr Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease: A Rare Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension
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title_short Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease: A Rare Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension
title_sort pulmonary veno-occlusive disease: a rare cause of pulmonary hypertension
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31010327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619840375
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