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RESPIRATORY RESEARCH
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-10-95
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [5P01 HL66254-03] Funding Source: Medline
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Severe pulmonary arterial hypertension, whether idiopathic or secondary, is characterized by structural alterations of microscopically small pulmonary arterioles. The vascular lesions in this group of pulmonary hypertensive diseases show actively proliferating endothelial cells without evidence of apoptosis. In this article, we review pathogenetic concepts of severe pulmonary arterial hypertension and explain the term complex vascular lesion , commonly named plexiform lesion, with endothelial cell dysfunction, i.e., apoptosis, proliferation, interaction with smooth muscle cells and transdifferentiation.
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