Severe pulmonary hypertension in a young patient with end-stage renal disease on chronic hemodialysis

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-186

  Sharma, Satyavan ^a   Kirpalani, Ashok ^a   Kulkarni, Amit ^a  

^a BOMBAY HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous fistula; end stage renal disease; pulmonary artery hypertension; pulmonary circulation

Indexed keywords

BOSENTAN; METHYLDOPA; SILDENAFIL;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

EID: 78650661141     PISSN: 09742069     EISSN: 09745149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2069.74055     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Havlucu Y, Kursat S, Ekmekci C, Celik P, Serter S, Bayturan O, et al. Pulmonary hypertension in patients with chronic renal failure. Respiration 2007;74:503-10.
2. Rubin LJ. Pathology and pathophysiology of primary pulmonary hypertension. Am J Cardiol 1995;75:51A-4A.
3. Pastan S, Bailey J. Dialysis therapy. N Engl J Med 1998;338: 1428-36.
4. Mazdeh MM, Mousavi SA, Yahyazadeh H, Azadi M, Yoosefinoad H, Ataiipoor Y. Pulmonary hypertension in haemodialysis patients. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl 2008;19:189-93.
5. Simonneau G, Robbins IM, Beghetti M, Channick RN, Delcroix M, Denton CP, et al. Updated clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009;54:S-43-54.
6. Yigla M, Nakhoul F, Sabag A, Tov N, Gorevich B, Abassi Z, et al. Pulmonary hypertension in patients with end-stage renal disease. Chest 2003;123:1577-82.
7. Abdelwhab S, Elshinnawy S. Pulmonary hypertension in chronic renal failure patients. Am J Nephrol 2008;28: 990-97.
8. Okura H, Takatsu Y. High output failure as cause of pulmonary hypertension. Intern Med 1994;33:363-65.
9. Amin M, Fawzy A, Abdel Hamid M, Ethendy A. Pulmonary hypertension in patients with chronic renal failure. Role of parathyroid hormone and pulmonary artery calcifcations. Chest 2003;124:2093-97.
10. Nakhoul F, Yigla M, Gilmam R, Reisner SA, Abassi Z. The pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension in haemodialysis patients in arteriovenous access. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2005;20:1686-92.
11. Abdallah EA, Waked E, Metwaly A, Khalek AA. The role of arterio-venous shunt in the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertention in patients with end-stage renal disease. Kidney 2010;3:4. Available from: http://www.springerlink.com/ content/99w72g8446361465 [last cited on 2010 Jul 7].
12. Faraz HA, Shah MK, Qureshi TA, Mubarak KK. Pulmonary artery hypertension in end stage renal disease: Clinical and haemodynamic improvement with endothelin receptor antagonist, Bosentan. Chest Meeting Abstracts 2006;130:1. Available from: http://meeting.chestpubs.org/cgi/content/ abstract/130/4/304S-c [last cited on 2006 Oct 23].