Article
Pulmonary Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease: Novel Findings of Gene Polymorphisms Related to Pathophysiology
2024-04-01
Abstract excerpt
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive and potentially fatal complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) affecting 6-10% of adult SCD patients. Various mechanisms and theories have been evaluated to explain the pathophysiology of the disease. However, questions remain, particularly regarding the clinical heterogeneity of the disease in terms of symptoms, complications, and survival. Beyond the classical mechan...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8ef7dfb4-6540-500f-bdfa-e3a4ff5c66e9
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202404.0049.v1
