[A case of heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension treated with long-term oral low-dose imatinib].

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Heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (HPAH) is a rare type of pulmonary arterial hypertension that often presents with progressive exertional dyspnea and for which there is no significant effective drug. A HPAH patient was admitted to our hospital more than three years ago, and the gene mutation was bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMPR2). For the first 45 months, she was given oral imatinib 100 mg once daily,...

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