Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease: A Rare Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension. - 2019

Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) is a rare entity that is usually mistaken with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) but is considered class I' of PAH. It is important to subclassify PVOD and distinguish it from PAH as treatment with vasodilators in PVOD patients is controversial and may be fatal. In this article, we describe a case of PVOD and how we diagnosed it.


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10.1177/2324709619840375 [doi] PMC6480994 [pmc]


*Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension/et [Etiology]
*Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease/di [Diagnosis]
Adult
Female
Humans
Lung Transplantation
Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease/co [Complications]
Tomography, X-Ray Computed


MedStar Washington Hospital Center


Medicine/Internal Medicine
Medicine/Pulmonary-Critical Care


Journal Article