Thalassemia Associated Pulmonary Hypertension

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Thalassemia Major Patients of Ilam, 2014

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease with high morbidity and mortality rates. Research has shown that PAH has a prevalence rate of 10-79% in thalassemia major patients. This cross-sectional study was carried out in 2014 to determine the prevalence and risk factors of PAH in all thalassemia major patients of over 18 years of age in Ilam, Iran. A cardiologist measured sy...

Sarcoidosis Associated Pulmonary Hypertension

Effect of acetylsalicylic acid on thalassemia with pulmonary arterial hypertension

OBJECTIVE To compare pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) between thalassemic patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) for whom acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) was and was not prescribed after 1 year. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted at the hematological outpatient clinic at Chiang Rai Hospital, Chiang Rai, Thailand. All new cases of thalassemia with PAH from Janu...

Necrotizing pulmonary arteriopathy associated with pulmonary hypertension.

The occurrence of pulmonary arteriosclerosis and arteriolosclerosis has long been recognized. Such structural changes in the pulmonary vasculature have usually been considered to represent an adaptation to alterations in the haemodynamics of the lesser circulation. In particular, their presence has been related to pulmonary hypertension, and they have been compared to the changes which occur in...

Pulmonary hypertension associated with necrotizing pulmonary arteritis.

Necrotizing arteritis limited to the pulmonary arteries has been described occasionally as a complication of mitral stenosis (Parker and Weiss, 1936), of Eisenmenger's complex (Old and Russell, 1947), and in patients dying with right heart failure of uncertain causation (McKeown, 1952). One such case in this last category, in which cardiac catheterization gave clear evidence of pulmonary hypert...

Pulmonary hypertension associated with COPD

Pulmonary hypertension is a common complication of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The increase in pulmonary artery pressures is often mild to moderate, but some patients may suffer from severe pulmonary hypertension, and present with a progressively downhill clinical course because of right-sided heart failure added to ventilatory handicap. The cause of pulmonary hypertension in ...