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Association of clinical features with HLA in chronic pulmonary thromboembolism.
The European respiratory journal - 1 Jan 2005
Tanabe N, Kimura A, Amano S, Okada O, Kasahara Y, Tatsumi K, Takahashi M, Shibata H, Yasunami M, Kuriyama T
Abstract excerpt
The aetiology of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is largely unknown and may be heterogeneous, because there are several ethnic differences in the clinical characteristics of CTEPH. Female predominance and a higher ratio of chronic to acute pulmonary thromboembolism have been reported in Japan as compared with the USA. Because such ethnic differences may be controlled by genetic factors, the...
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