Familial primary pulmonary hypertension.
Primary pulmonary hypertension is a rare disease affecting mostly females. We report a family where 2 of the 3 male children born to consanguineous parents had severe pulmonary hypertension of unexplained cause. The occurrence of overtly manifest primary pulmonary hypertension is rare in males, especially at an early age.
Shanmugasundaram
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Department of Cardiology, KS Hospital, Chetpet, Chennai. samadja@hotmail.com
D002648:Child; D003241:Consanguinity; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D009679:Nuclear Family