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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Once patients are symptomatic, they present with right heart dysfunction secondary to pulmonary hypertension and its consequent dyspnea, fatigue, chest pain and syncope.[1] Patients tend to have a poor cardiac status, with 60% having stage III-IV NYHA heart failure. while in another it was equally distributed throughout the diagnoses.[2].
References
- ↑ Martinex-Palli et al. Liver Transplant in High Risk Patients. Transplant Proceedings 2005;37:3861-3864
- ↑ Tapper EB, Knowles D, Heffron T, Lawrence EC, Csete M. Portopulmonary hypertension: imatinib as a novel treatment and the Emory experience with this condition. Transplant Proc. 2009 Jun;41(5):1969-71.