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Pulmonary arterial hypertension in connective tissue diseases.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is an entity that is known to complicate connective tissue diseases (CTD). PAH in CTD is a very important diagnosis which greatly affects treatment and prognosis. The most commonly affected CTD is scleroderma, although lupus, inflammatory myopathies such as poly and dermatomyositis, and mixed CTD are also associated with PAH. The manifestations of PAH have ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1462-0324,1462-0332
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kem123