Evaluation of pulmonary hypertension in Bilharzial patients

Setting: Most of the observational studies suggested that pulmonary hypertension occurs in as low as 5% to as high as 21 % of patients infected with schistosomiasis. There were no reports of the real incidence in our locality. Objective: To evaluate the presence of pulmonary hypertension in Bilharzi...

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Main Authors: M.Sh. Badawy, Mohamed A. El-Senbesy, Hassan S. Mahmoud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-04-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763813000691