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Current Drug Targets - Inflammation & Allergy

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ISSN (Print): 1568-010X
ISSN (Online): 1568-010X

Pulmonary Hypertension and Systemic Diseases

Author(s): Rossella Paolini, Michela Armigliato and Sergio Zamboni

Volume 3, Issue 4, 2004

Page: [459 - 467] Pages: 9

DOI: 10.2174/1568010042634613

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Abstract

Secondary pulmonary hypertension (sPH) may develop as a result of few systemic diseases as endocrine diseases, HIV infection, collagen diseases, liver and hematological disorders. In this review we discuss the role of systemic diseases in inducing PH starting from a pathological classification.

Keywords: endothelial nitric oxide synthase, calcitonin, copd, endothelin-1, vasoconstrictor, growth hormone, hiv, myeloid metaplasia


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