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pulmonary
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Decisions regarding appropriate organ transplantation may depend on whether pulmonary hypertension is primary or secondary to portal hypertension.
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Primary pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare, afflicting about 1, 500 people in the United States.
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ET-1-like immunoreactivity and mRNA were also present in pulmonary vascular endothelial cells, particularly in specimens from patients with pulmonary hypertension .
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Most patients taking the pills do not develop pulmonary hypertension , he said.
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Some researchers worry, however, that some cases of pulmonary hypertension may have been overlooked.
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These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease, primary pulmonary hypertension .
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portal
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Decisions regarding appropriate organ transplantation may depend on whether pulmonary hypertension is primary or secondary to portal hypertension.
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Recently Hadengue etal reported a higher prevalence of 2% in 507 patients with portal hypertension .
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Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension .
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Gastric varices Gastric varices are not uncommon in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension .
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Clinically there was no evidence of portal hypertension .
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Treatment was discontinued when patients developed evidence of cirrhosis or portal hypertension .
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Our patient thus failed to show evidence of portal hypertension .
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Patients described in published works with portopulmonary hypertension have all had clinically obvious portal hypertension.
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Against this backdrop come this week's studies of hypertension , antihypertensive drugs, and cancer.
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In the Preston studies shortness at birth was associated with hypertension and raised plasma fibrinogen concentrations in adult life.
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Its best known application is Cardizem, for treating hypertension .
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Recently Hadengue etal reported a higher prevalence of 2% in 507 patients with portal hypertension .
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Some researchers worry, however, that some cases of pulmonary hypertension may have been overlooked.
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Therefore it appears that hypertension has an additive deleterious effect on overall prognosis in the diabetic.
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This may, however, worsen hypertension by increasing the peripheral vascular resistance.