Acute and long-term effects of nifedipine on pulmonary and systemic hemodynamics in patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with diffuse systemic sclerosis, the CREST syndrome and mixed connective tissue disease.

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Published in Am J Cardiol on December 15, 1991

Authors

M A Alpert1, T A Pressly, V Mukerji, C R Lambert, B Mukerji, H Panayiotou, G C Sharp

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile.

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