Authors: A Limsuwan P Pienvichit P Khowsathit
Publish Date: 2005/08/25
Volume: 26, Issue: 6, Pages: 787-791
Abstract
We present a report on children with severe pulmonary hypertension secondary to congenital heart disease who received 6 months of beraprost therapy The children had an increase in intracardiac lefttoright shunt and a reduction of the pulmonarytosystemic vascular resistance ratio whereas the pulmonary artery pressure was not significantly changedWe thank the cardiac catheterization laboratory staff at Ramathibodi Hospital for facilitating the study and the Ramathibodi metabolic ward staff for assisting with patient care This work was supported by grants from the Cardiac Children Foundation of Thailand
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