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Experimental Schistosoma haematobium pulmonary hypertension
Biruk Kassa1,2, Dara C Fonseca-Balladares1,2, Rahul Kumar1,2
1Department of Medicine Lung Biology Center, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital San Francisco California USA.
Pulmonary Circulation
|February 5, 2024
Abstract:
Whether all Schistosoma species cause pulmonary hypertension (PH) is unclear. Experimentally exposing mice to Schistosoma haematobium eggs caused PH, which was less severe than that induced by S. mansoni exposure. These findings align with the relatively uncommon reports of pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with S. haematobium.

