Association of the Metabolic Syndrome With Pulmonary Venous Hypertension

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary venous hypertension (PVH) is a well-described cause of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with left heart disease associated with elevated left heart filling pressure. PVH results from a number of processes, including left-sided valvular disease, constrictive pericardial d...

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Main Authors: Robbins, Ivan M., Newman, John H., Johnson, Roger F., Hemnes, Anna R., Fremont, Richard D., Piana, Robert N., Zhao, David X., Byrne, Daniel W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American College of Chest Physicians 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716716/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19188551
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.08-2008
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