Open AccessPathology of the Pulmonary Vascular Tree
Author(s) -
ROGER C. SMITH,
Howard B. Burchell,
Jesse E. Edwards
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.10.6.801
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , stenosis , mitral valve stenosis , right ventricular hypertrophy , muscle hypertrophy , heart failure , pulmonary heart disease , pulmonary hypertension , pathology
Previous studies in this series demonstrated structural changes in the pulmonary vascular bed as the result of mitral valvular disease and other cardiac disorders. The present study demonstrates changes in the lungs as the result of chronic left ventricular failure; these changes were like those produced by mitral stenosis. The most pronounced disturbance was medial hypertrophy. The exact mechanism is not known, but it probably is related to increased pulmonary venous pressure.
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