Primary pulmonary hypertension as a manifestation of adult multi-system mitochondrial disorder

Yonsei Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 307-308

  Finsterer, Josef ^a  

^a Hospital Rudolfstiftung   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNIPROST;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERURICEMIA; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; LIMB WEAKNESS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MUSCLE CRAMP; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES;

EID: 66549129952     PISSN: 05135796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2009.50.2.307     Document Type: Article

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