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Pulmonary arterial hypertension: the clinical syndrome
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Lai YC
; Potoka KC
; Champion HC
; Mora AL
; Gladwin MT
Circ Res
2014[Jun]; 115
(1
): 115-30
PMID24951762
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a progressive disorder in which endothelial
dysfunction and vascular remodeling obstruct small pulmonary arteries, resulting
in increased pulmonary vascular resistance and pulmonary pressures. This leads to
reduced cardiac output, right heart failure, and ultimately death. In this
review, we attempt to answer some important questions commonly asked by patients
diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension pertaining to the disease, and aim
to provide an explanation in terms of classification, diagnosis, pathophysiology,
genetic causes, demographics, and prognostic factors. Furthermore, important
molecular pathways that are central to the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial
hypertension are reviewed, including nitric oxide, prostacyclin, endothelin-1,
reactive oxygen species, and endothelial and smooth muscle proliferation.
|Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors, Type II/genetics/physiology
[MESH]