Novel EIF2AK4 mutations in histologically proven pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis and hereditary pulmonary arterial hypertension

• Main Authors: Ossama K. Abou Hassan (Author), Wiam Haidar (Author), Mariam Arabi (Author), Hadi Skouri (Author), Fadi Bitar (Author), Georges Nemer (Author), Imad Bou Akl (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) remains one of the rarest and deadliest diseases. Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis (PCH) is one of the sub-classes of PH. It was identified using histological and molecular tools and is characterized by the proliferation of capillaries into the alve...