Multifactorial Etiology Pulmonary Hypertension in a Patient with Sarcoidosis.
Ana Terra Fonseca BarretoBarreto Lucas Vinícius da FonsecaCavalcante Felipe Naze RodriguesOliveira Joselina Luzia MenezesAlmeida-Santos Marcos AntônioGarcez Juliane Dantas SeabraBarreto-Filho José Augusto SoaresSousa Antônio Carlos SobralPublished in: Case reports in cardiology (2016)
Differential diagnosis between pre- and postcapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with diastolic heart failure (DHF) is a challenge in clinical practice. The presence of PH is implicated in worse prognosis in patients with this disease. This case report approaches the process of investigation of pulmonary hypertension in adult patient with DHF, double mitral lesion, and sarcoidosis with poor clinical outcome.