• Chest · Dec 2020

    Case Reports

    A 13-Year-Old Male With Diagnosed Idiopathic Pulmonary Hypertension: Is it Really Idiopathic?

    • Julie Wacker, Yacine Aggoun, Sylvain Terraz, Emmanuelle Golay, Albane B R Maggio, Jean-Paul Vallée, Anne-Lise Hachulla, Frédéric Lador, Constance Barazzone, Valérie McLin, and Maurice Beghetti.
    • Pediatric Cardiology Unit, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Centre Universitaire Romand de Cardiologie et Chirurgie Cardiaque Pédiatrique, University of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: julie.wacker@hcuge.ch.
    • Chest. 2020 Dec 1; 158 (6): e295-e298.

    Case PresentationA 13-year-old male was referred after incidental finding of cardiomegaly on chest radiograph and signs of pulmonary hypertension on subsequent cardiology consult. He was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, and came to our center for a second opinion. He was born from consanguineous parents. He reported to be asymptomatic in his daily life. He was not on medications. Family history was not contributive.Copyright © 2020 American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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