Pulmonary artery hypertension as the presenting feature of systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma

Rheumatology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1431-1432

  Pauling, J D ^a   Gunawardena, H ^a   Coghlan, J G ^b   Easaw, J ^c   Suntharalingam, J ^c   McHugh, Neil J ^a  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; DIURETIC AGENT; FIBRILLARIN AUTOANTIBODY; PROSTACYCLIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LETTER; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS SINE SCLERODERMA; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 50849094553     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken241     Document Type: Letter

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