Diagnosaurus
Pulmonary hypertension
Etiology
- Primary pulmonary hypertension
- Chronic pulmonary embolism
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Interstitial lung disease
- Sleep apnea
- Pickwickian syndrome (obesity-hypoventilation syndrome)
- Scleroderma or other connective tissue disease
- Left to right intracardiac shunt
- Drugs or toxins: fenfluramine, dexfenfluramine, phentermine, bleomycin, amiodarone, talc (via IV drug use)
- Radiation
- Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
- Valve disease: mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, aortic stenosis
- Left-sided heart failure
- Atrial myxoma
- High altitude (chronic mountain sickness)
- Polycythemia vera
- Cirrhosis with portal hypertension
- HIV
- Schistosomiasis
- Sickle cell disease
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Pulmonary Hypertension." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114596/all/Pulmonary_hypertension.
Zeiger RFR. Pulmonary hypertension. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114596/all/Pulmonary_hypertension. Accessed November 18, 2024.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Pulmonary hypertension. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114596/all/Pulmonary_hypertension
Zeiger RFR. Pulmonary Hypertension [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2024 November 18]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114596/all/Pulmonary_hypertension.
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