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World Health Organization group 5 pulmonary hypertension

Tim Lahm1, Murali M Chakinala

  • 1Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, Occupational and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Center for Immunobiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, 980 West Walnut Street, Room C400, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

Clinics in Chest Medicine
|November 26, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Fibrosing mediastinitisLymphangioleiomyomatosisMetabolic disordersMyeloproliferative disordersPulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosisRenal failureSarcoidosisSplenectomy

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