%0 Journal Article
%T The Burden of Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease in Enugu South-East Nigeria: An Echocardiographic Based Study
%A EC Ejim
%A NI Oguanobi
%J Archive of "Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/2141-9248.183945
%X Pulmonary hypertension is a common complication of degenerative mitral valve disease, and contributes significantly to both morbidity and mortality. The use of medications for reduction of pulmonary pressure in patients is not a common practice by most physicians in this part of the world because of the absence of data on pulmonary hypertension
%K Degenerative mitral valve disease
%K Nigeria
%K Pulmonary hypertension
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924491/