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International Journal of Clinical Case Studies Volume 1 (2015), Article ID 1:IJCCS-105, 3 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-2356/2015/105
Case Report
Natural Course of Pulmonary Hypertension due to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report

Yosuke Maehara1*, Tatsuya Kawasaki1, Shigeyuki Miki1, Yasuyuki Enoki2 and Tadaaki Kamitani2

1Department of Cardiology, Matsushita Memorial Hospital, Sotojima 5-55, Moriguchi, Osaka 570-8540, Japan 2Department of Pathology, Matsushita Memorial Hospital, Sotojima 5-55, Moriguchi, Osaka 570-8540, Japan
Dr. Yosuke Maehara, Department of Cardiology, Matsushita Memorial Hospital, Sotojima 5-55, Moriguchi, Osaka 570-8540, Japan; E-mail: maehara.yousuke@jp.panasonic.com
31 March 2015; 18 April 2015; 20 April 2015
Maehara Y, Kawasaki T, Miki S, Enoki Y, Kamitani T (2015) Natural Course of Pulmonary Hypertension due to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report. Int J Clin Case Stud 1: 105. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-2356/2015/105
© 2015 Maehara et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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