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(Chest. 1963;43:82-86.)
© 1963 American College of Chest Physicians

Chronic Cor Pulmonale or Chronic Pulmonary Hypertensive Heart Disease?

Francisco Galland M.D.1

1 Clinical Investigator in Cardiopulmonary Diseases, National Institute of Cardiology

Whenever pulmonary arterial hypertension exists long enough—no matter how it was produced—and of such a degree as to cause hypertrophy of the right ventricle with or without dilatation, it is convenient to speak about "chronic pulmonary hypertensive heart disease." The etiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension recognizes three types of chronic diffuse lung diseases: (a) parenchymatous and interstitial, (b) vascular, and (c) extrinsic.






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