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- Title
Metabolic Disorders of Pulmonary Hypertension.
- Authors
Oliveros, Estefania; Vaidya, Anjali
- Abstract
There is overlap between pulmonary hypertension and metabolic disorders. According to the 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension, glycogen storage diseases and Gaucher disease are included in the heterogeneous group 5 pulmonary hypertension. This review highlights the known insights into the role of metabolic disorders and pulmonary hypertension, including epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of pulmonary hypertension. Thyroid disorders have multiple mechanisms by which association with pulmonary hypertension have been described, and these will also be discussed. Pulmonary hypertension-specific targeted therapies and disease-specific therapies have been suggested, and the use alone or in combination has variable responses.
- Subjects
PULMONARY hypertension; GLYCOGEN storage disease; METABOLIC disorders; GAUCHER'S disease; THYROID diseases; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 2, p35
- ISSN
1933-088X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21693/1933-088X-20.2.35