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- Title
Multifactorial Etiology Pulmonary Hypertension in a Patient with Sarcoidosis.
- Authors
Ana Terra Fonseca, Barreto; Lucas Vinícius da Fonseca, Barreto; Felipe Naze Rodrigues, Cavalcante; Joselina Luzia Menezes, Oliveira; Marcos Antônio, Almeida-Santos; Juliane Dantas Seabra, Garcez; José Augusto Soares, Barreto-Filho; Antônio Carlos Sobral, Sousa
- Abstract
Differential diagnosis between pre- and postcapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with diastolic heart failure (DHF) is a challenge in clinical practice. The presence of PH is implicated in worse prognosis in patients with this disease. This case report approaches the process of investigation of pulmonary hypertension in adult patient with DHF, double mitral lesion, and sarcoidosis with poor clinical outcome.
- Subjects
PULMONARY hypertension diagnosis; SARCOIDOSIS diagnosis; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; HEART failure; HEALTH outcome assessment
- Publication
Case Reports in Cardiology, 2016, p1
- ISSN
2090-6404
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2016/2481369