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Pulmonary hypertension in systemic sclerosis: different phenotypes.
European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society - 30 Sept 2017
Launay David, Sobanski Vincent, Hachulla Eric, Humbert Marc
Abstract excerpt
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a frequent and severe complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc). PH in SSc is highly heterogeneous because of the various clinical phenotypes of SSc itself and because the mechanisms of PH can vary from one patient to another. PH in SSc may be due to vasculopathy of the small pulmonary arteries (group 1; pulmonary arterial hypertension), interstitial lung disease (group 3; PH due to...
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