Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension in a Child With Sickle Cell Disease

• Main Authors: Robert Spencer (Author), Gerson Valencia Villeda (Author), Koji Takeda (Author), Erika B. Rosenzweig (Author)
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• Publicado em: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...