Severe pulmonary hypertension reversed by antibiotics in a patient with Whipple's disease

Thorax

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1014-1015

  Riemer, H ^a   Hainz, R ^a   Stain, Ch ^a   Dekan, G ^a   Feldner Busztin, M ^a   Schenk, P ^a   Muller Ch ^a   Sertl, K ^a   Burghuber, O C ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Pericardial effusion; Pleural effusion; Pulmonary hypertension; Tropheryma whippelii; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0030831741     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.52.11.1014     Document Type: Article

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