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  • Title: Sudden Death in a Patient with Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease (PVOD) and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension.
    Author: Saito M, Ohshima N, Matsui H, Hebisawa A, Ohta K.
    Journal: Intern Med; 2017; 56(15):2025-2031. PubMed ID: 28768975.
    Abstract:
    A 58-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with a chief complaint of exertional dyspnea. Bronchoscopy failed to establish a diagnosis, and the patient subsequently died suddenly due to respiratory insufficiency because of advanced pulmonary hypertension (PH). The pathological diagnosis at autopsy was pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD). PVOD is difficult to diagnose antemortem and has a poor prognosis. Lung transplantation is the only curative treatment for PVOD.
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