Decreased numbers of T-lymphocytes and predominance of recently recruited macrophages in the walls of peripheral pulmonary arteries from 26 patients with pulmonary hypertension secondary to congenital cardiac shunts

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 268-275

  Pinto, Rubens Fraga Alves ^a   Higuchi, Maria De Lourdes ^a   Aiello, Vera Demarchi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Inflammatory cells; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTIMA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MACROPHAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIGENS, CD20; ANTIGENS, CD3; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INFANT; MACROPHAGES; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 4444374427     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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