Pulmonary Hypertension and Systemic Diseases

Rossella      Paolini; Michela      Armigliato; Sergio      Zamboni

doi:10.2174/1568010042634613

Abstract

Secondary pulmonary hypertension (sPH) may develop as a result of few systemic diseases as endocrine diseases, HIV infection, collagen diseases, liver and hematological disorders. In this review we discuss the role of systemic diseases in inducing PH starting from a pathological classification.

Keywords: endothelial nitric oxide synthase, calcitonin, copd, endothelin-1, vasoconstrictor, growth hormone, hiv, myeloid metaplasia