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[Pulmonary hypertension in end-stage renal disease: three case reports].

S S Pabst, C C Hammerstingl, F F Hundt, T T Gerhardt, G G Nickenig, R R Woitas, and D D Skowasch

Dtsch Med Wochenschr 136(18):944-7 (2011) PMID 21526458

Within three months, three patients with end-stage renal disease presented for evaluation of pulmonary hypertension (PH): a 72-year-old woman (case 1), a 67-year-old patient (case 2) and a 75-year-old patient (case 3), each with increasing dyspnea (WHO functional class III).

DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1275830
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