Pulmonary hypertension in a child with mitochondrial A3243G point mutation.

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Mitochondrial diseases are a group of disorders caused by pathologic dysfunction of the mitochondrial respiratory chain that present with a wide range of clinical expression. Cardiorespiratory complications have previously been described in association with mitochondrial disease; however, pulmonary hypertension has rarely been reported. Pulmonary hypertension is characterized by elevated pulmonary arterial...

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