Characterization of connective tissue disease-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension from REVEAL: identifying systemic sclerosis as a unique phenotype.

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Published in Chest on May 27, 2010

Authors

Lorinda Chung1, Juliana Liu, Lori Parsons, Paul M Hassoun, Michael McGoon, David B Badesch, Dave P Miller, Mark R Nicolls, Roham T Zamanian

Author Affiliations

1: VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. shauwei@stanford.edu

Associated clinical trials:

REVEAL Registry™: Registry to Evaluate Early And Long-term PAH Disease Management | NCT00370214

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