Determinants of an elevated pulmonary arterial pressure in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Given the difficulty of diagnosing early-stage pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) due to the lack of signs and symptoms, and the risk of an open lung biopsy, the precise pathological features of presymptomatic stage lung tissue remain unknown. It has been suggested that the maximum elevation of t...

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Main Authors: Sakao, Seiichiro, Voelkel, Norbert F., Tanabe, Nobuhiro, Tatsumi, Koichiro
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493808/