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Pathology of pulmonary hypertension and schistosomiasis mansoni
M A Rivero1, M A Marcial, A Reyes
1Department of Pathology, Ramón Ruiz Arnau University Hospital, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report a case of a 33-year-old woman with grade IV pulmonary hypertension and end stage cor pulmonale secondary to chronic schistosomiasis (bilharziasis). The pathophysiology and morphologic features are discussed. Schistosomiasis is an important etiology to consider in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension.