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Long-term treatment with high-dose of sildenafil in a thalassemic patient with pulmonary hypertension
- Source :
- Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, Vol 78, Iss 2 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- PAGEPress Publications, 2015.
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Abstract
- We report a case of a 37-years-old man, affected by thalassemia major, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, chronic HCV-hepatitis, diabetes mellitus, severe osteoporosis, prior septic pulmonary embolism and pulmonary artery hypertension was performed a long-term treatment with highdose of sildenafil (120 mg/die) with reduction of pulmonary arterial systolic pressure and of the dyspnea.
- Subjects :
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
thalassemia major
sildenafil.
Medicine
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11220643 and 25325264
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.f48b8752a491409883c300568f79b867
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2012.131