Unusual course of pulmonary hypertension of vascular origin

Respiration. 1993;60(5):292-4. doi: 10.1159/000196219.

Abstract

We report a boy with an unusual course of pulmonary hypertension of vascular origin. He suffered from pulmonary perinatal complications due to a Pierre Robin anomaly. Pulmonary hypertension was diagnosed at the age of 18 months. He died from progressive right heart failure at the age of 19 years.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / etiology*
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology
  • Male
  • Pierre Robin Syndrome / complications*