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Pulmonary hypertension as a result of asymptomatic portosystemic shunt
H Imamura1, T Momose, H Kitabayashi
1The First Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan. imamura@hsp.md.shinshu-u.ac.jp
Japanese Circulation Journal
|June 30, 2000
Abstract:
This report describes a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension accompanied by a congenital intrahepatic portosystemic shunt. Primary pulmonary hypertension was suspected initially because none of the classic symptoms of a portosystemic shunt were present. Physicians should note that disorders of the portal system may cause pulmonary hypertension even in the absence of symptoms suggesting liver disease.