pulmonary venoocclusive disease

pulmonary venoocclusive disease
an idiopathic form of primary pulmonary hypertension, usually seen in children or young adults, characterized by dyspnea and syncope, sometimes with intimal fibrosis, hemoptysis, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, and orthopnea.

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