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3/2013
vol. 29
 
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Review paper

Pulmonary arterial hypertension: diagnosis and treatment

Marcin Sadowski
,
Agnieszka Janion-Sadowska
,
Agnieszka Łętek
,
Grzegorz Raczyński
,
Łukasz Zandecki

Studia Medyczne 2013; 29 (3): 273–279
Online publish date: 2013/10/25
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension is one of the clinical groups of arterial hypertension. It is a rare, chronic disease with a very poor prognosis. Diagnostic procedures ruling out different causes of present symptoms and other forms of pulmonary hypertension are difficult and specific. Current European guidelines recommend combined treatment with endothelin receptor antagonist, prostanoids, and phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors.
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pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary arterial hypertension, diagnosis, treatment

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