%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/