Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension in a Child With Sickle Cell Disease

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a potentially curable form of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) resulting from incomplete resolution of pulmonary thromboemboli. We describe an 11-year-old boy with homozygous sickle cell disease with an indwelling catheter found to have sever...

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Main Authors: Robert Spencer, Gerson Valencia Villeda, Koji Takeda, Erika B. Rosenzweig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2020.00363/full