pulmonale Arteriële Hypertensie
Also known as Hypertension, Pulmonary
medical condition
Key facts
- Other names
- Ayerza syndrome
- Specialty
- Pulmonology , cardiology
- Symptoms
- Chest pain, fatigue
- Usual onset
- 20 to 60 years old
- Duration
- Long term
- Causes
- Unknown
- Risk factors
- Family history, pulmonary embolism , HIV/AIDS , sickle cell disease , cocaine use, COPD , sleep apnea , living at high altitudes
- Diagnostic method
- Following ruling out other potential causes
- Treatment
- Supportive care , various medications, lung transplantation
- Medication
- Epoprostenol , treprostinil , iloprost , bosentan , ambrisentan , macitentan , sildenafil
- Frequency
- 1,000 new cases a year (US)
via Wikipedia infobox
Article · Nederlands
Pulmonale hypertensie (PH) is verhoogde bloeddruk in de longen. De oorzaken zijn zeer divers. Het is een betrekkelijk zeldzame aandoening. Er wordt van pulmonale hypertensie gesproken als de gemiddelde druk in de longslagaders in rust hoger is dan 25 mmHg.
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