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Case Reports
A 63-Year-Old Woman With Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Pulmonary Hypertension With Worsening Hypoxemia.
- Udit Chaddha, Ioan Puscas, Ashley Prosper, Sivagini Ganesh, and Bassam Yaghmour.
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Electronic address: udit.chaddha@med.usc.edu.
- Chest. 2017 Oct 1; 152 (4): e89-e93.
Case PresentationA 63-year-old woman with a history of neurofibromatosis type-1 (NF-1) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) thought to be secondary to the NF-1 presented with a few weeks of worsening dyspnea on exertion. She took no medications other than sildenafil for her pulmonary hypertension (PH). She denied tobacco, alcohol, and illicit or anorectic drug use. She had previously worked as a waitress. Her mother and her brother had NF-1 but no PH or lung disease.Copyright © 2017 American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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