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Pulmonary Hypertension

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Pulmonary hypertension describes raised pulmonary circulatory pressure, venous or arterial. Venous pulmonary hypertension is more common in daily practice than primary arterial hypertension.

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Henein, M.Y., Sheppard, M. (2012). Pulmonary Hypertension. In: Henein, M. (eds) Clinical Echocardiography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-521-5_12

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