Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease as a cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)

Department of Internal Medicine (Porres-Aguilar, Al-Bayati, Syed), Department of Pathology (Padilla), Division of Cardiovascular Diseases (Mukherjee, Abbas), and medical student (Lowder, Azimova, Fan), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center/Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, Texas; and Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas School of Medicine and Division of General Internal Medicine, Beneficencia Española de Tampico, Tampico, Mexico (Porres-Muñoz).

Published: July 2015

Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) represents a rare form of precapillary pulmonary arterial hypertension. We present a young patient hospitalized with progressive dyspnea, with initial workup suggestive of pulmonary hypertension and unexplained noncardiogenic pulmonary edema. His subsequent clinical course was consistent with the diagnosis of PVOD.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08998280.2015.11929271DOI Listing

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