肺動脈高血壓
Also known as Hypertension, Pulmonary
特徵是肺動脈，肺靜脈或肺毛細血管的血壓升高的高血壓
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)
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Article · 中文
肺高壓又稱肺動脈高壓（Pulmonary hypertension，簡稱PH或PHTN），是描述肺循環內的壓力升高的情形。肺高壓會造成呼吸困難、暈眩、昏厥、下肢水腫，肺高壓患者會因為心臟負荷增加令運動能力急速下降，以及發生其他症狀，可引致心臟衰竭導致病患死亡。此症於1891年由首次描述。根據最新的分類，肺高壓共有六種形式。
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