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encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine




Disease portal hypertension
Comorbidity C0020542|pulmonary hypertension
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PubMedID- 20491346 The mechanism how the portal hypertension leads to the pulmonary hypertension is not clear.
PubMedID- 19766269 Children with congenital portosystemic venous shunt (psvs) are at risk for developing pulmonary hypertension, irrespective of the severity of portal hypertension or liver damage.
PubMedID- 22530100 Potential contributing factors include portal hypertension with resulting portopulmonary hypertension and/or egg embolism, and a host immune responses that may be systemic and/or locally directed at parasite antigens in the lung.

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