Pulmonary Hypertension in Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zuily, Stéphane ^a,b,c   Wahl, Denis ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b INSERM UMR S 1116 University of Lorraine   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant; Antiphospholipid antibodies; Antiphospholipid syndrome; Cardiac surgery; Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary endarterectomy; Pulmonary hypertension; Right heart catheterization; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Thrombosis; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ILOPROST; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PROSTACYCLIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDARTERECTOMY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; COMPLICATION; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 84921866721     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-014-0478-8     Document Type: Review

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