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May 2016 DOI 10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-16-944
Angelike P LiappisCorresponding author
Pulmonary hypertension may occur as a co-morbid disease in HIV. We examined the characteristics of our HIV infected veterans with pulmonary hypertension and compared them with a control group of HIV infected patients without pulmonary hypertension. Among our cohort, patients were diagnosed with pulm…
Background: Co-morbidities are associated with increasing risk of mortality, hospitalizations and costs of treatment in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients. Identification of Co- morbidities related to COPD phenotypes may guide individualized therapies and achieve better prognosis. Method…
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) has become an increasingly recognized complication in sickle cell anaemia (SCA) and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Though the burden of SCA in sub-Saharan Africa is high, there is paucity of data on SCA-associated PH with little or no attention given to it i…