Clinical and genetic characteristics of pulmonary arterial hypertension in Lebanon

Clinical and genetic characteristics of pulmonary arterial hypertension in Lebanon

Abstract Background Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease with an incidence rate of 2–6 cases per million per year. Our knowledge of the disease in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is limited by the small number of clinical studies and the complete absence of genetic...

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Main Authors: Ossama K. Abou Hassan, Wiam Haidar, Georges Nemer, Hadi Skouri, Fadi Haddad, Imad BouAkl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Genetics
Subjects:
Pulmonary hypertension
BMPR2
Mutation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12881-018-0608-7

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