Demographic and clinical characteristics of pulmonary arterial hypertension caused by schistosomiasis are indistinguishable from other etiologies.
Adriano Aguiar MendesCarlos Guilhermo Piscoya RoncalFlávio Roberto Azevedo de OliveiraEugênio Soares de AlbuquerqueGustavo Henrique Belarmino GóesIsabelle Cecília de Vasconcellos PiscoyaDário Celestino Sobral FilhoPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2020)
Patients with PAH-Sch present clinical, laboratory, and hemodynamic profiles similar to those with PAH resulting from other etiologies of poor prognosis. PAH is an important manifestation of schistosomiasis in endemic regions that is often diagnosed late.