[Pulmonary hypertension: a rare complication of hepatic cirrhosis]

Pulmonary hypertension is a rare pulmonary complication of chronic hepatic diseases. Anatomopathologic and clinic data are very similar to primary pulmonary hypertension. Although the lesions of arteriopathy are more related to portal hypertension than to hepatic lesions, the physiopathology of this morbid association is unknown.