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Pulmonary Hypertension

Clive E. Handler

出版	Oxford University Press, 2012
ISBN	01917555919780191755590
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jiY5ygEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

High pressure in the lungs, or pulmonary hypertension, is most commonly due to smoking-related lung disease and conditions affecting the left heart, for example, high blood pressure in the arteries, faulty heart valves, and a weakened heart muscle. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), is a rare and complex disease, associated with many different medical conditions, which is caused by a growth of cells lining the inside of the lung arteries, resulting in high pressure in areas ofthe body. Both conditions lead to strain and potential failure of the right heart, and therefore awareness and earl.