POEMS syndrome-related pulmonary hypertension is steroid-responsive

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 353-355

  Jouve, Pascale ^a   Humbert, Marc ^b   Chauveheid, Marie Paule ^a   Jaïs, Xavier ^b   Papo, Thomas ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UPRES EA 2705   (France)

Author keywords

POEMS syndrome; Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANASARCA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PAPILLEDEMA; PARACENTESIS; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SPLENOMEGALY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POEMS SYNDROME; PREDNISONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846125922     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2006.04.026     Document Type: Article

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