PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | portal hypertension |
| Phenotype | C0020542|pulmonary hypertension |
| Sentences | 3 |
| 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- 20491346 | The mechanism how the portal hypertension leads to the pulmonary hypertension is not clear. |
| 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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