A Case of Congenital Pulmonary Vein Stenosis in an Adult

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Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 92-94

  Omasa, Mitsugu ^a   Hasegawa, Seiki ^a   Bando, Toru ^a   Okano, Yoshiaki ^a   Otani, Hideo ^a   Nakashima, Yasuaki ^a   Wada, Hiromi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult; Congenital pulmonary vein stenosis; Hypoplasia; Primary pulmonary hypertension; Prostacyclin

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIGITALIS; PROSTACYCLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; DELIVERY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; RARE DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1242329086     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075657     Document Type: Article

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