Failure of resting echocardiography and cardiac catheterization to identify pulmonary hypertension in two patients with type I Gaucher disease
Sirrs S, Irving J, McCauley G, Gin K, Munt B, Pastores G, Mistry P. Failure of resting echocardiography and cardiac catheterization to identify pulmonary hypertension in two patients with type I Gaucher disease. Journal Of Inherited Metabolic Disease 2002, 25: 131-132. PMID: 12118528, DOI: 10.1023/a:1015680827730.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDiagnosis of PHPulmonary hypertensionCardiac catheterizationEvidence of PHNormal pulmonary artery pressureOpen lung biopsyPulmonary artery pressureArtery pressureDobutamine echocardiographyLung biopsyEchocardiographic assessmentReplacement therapyPatient managementPatientsEchocardiographyGaucher diseaseGaucher patientsDiseaseHypertensionCatheterizationType IDiagnosisComplicationsBiopsyTherapy