title: [Pulmonary hypertension during the course of liver cirrhosis--presentation of two cases].
abstract: Two patients with liver cirrhosis and clinical and autopsy features of pulmonary hypertension are presented. Others than liver's pathology secondary causes of hypertension in pulmonary circulation were not found. In both patients pulmonary hypertension had an influence on clinical course of basic disease. Taking this complication into consideration in the explanation of pathomechanisms of symptoms allowed us better to understand the clinical manifestation of liver disease in observed in our clinic cirrhotic patients.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Gastroenterologii i Chorób Wewnetrznych Akademii Medycznej im. L. Rydygiera w Bydgoszczy.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Budzyński
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pulkowski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Swiatkowski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Korenkiewicz
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Skok
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sujkowska
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology*; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male