Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: Rare cause of pulmonary hypertension?;Telangiectasia hereditária hemorrágica: Causa rara de hipertensão pulmonar?

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Da Providência e Costa, Rui André Quadros Bebiano ^a   Cachulo, Maria Do Carmo ^a   Costa, Gisela Veríssimo ^a   Silva, Joana ^a   Lemos, Carlos Graça ^a   Leitao Marques A M ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Epistaxis; Hypertension, pulmonary; Telangiectasia, hereditary hemorrhagic; Vascular diseases

Indexed keywords

BOSENTAN; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DAFLON; DIGOXIN; ENALAPRIL MALEATE; ESOMEPRAZOLE; FOLIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RANITIDINE; SILDENAFIL;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEREDITARY HEMORHAGIC TELANGIECTASIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RARE DISEASE; TELANGIECTASIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; SULFONAMIDES; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 77952960282     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2010000300026     Document Type: Article

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