A retrospective study of schistosomiasis-associated pulmonary hypertension from an endemic area in Brazil

Fernando Antônio Botoni^{1

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4}, Carolina Coimbra Marinho², Vinicius Tostes Carvalho², Claudia S Mickael⁵, Brian B Graham⁵

Affiliations

¹ Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
² School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Internal Medicine Department, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
³ School of Medicine, Pontífice Universidade Católica, Internal Medicine Department, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Fundação Hospitalar de Estado de Minas Gerais - FHEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.

Editorial

Fernando Antônio Botoni et al. Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 5:24:100387.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcha.2019.100387. eCollection 2019 Sep.

Fernando Antônio Botoni^{1

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3

4}, Carolina Coimbra Marinho², Vinicius Tostes Carvalho², Claudia S Mickael⁵, Brian B Graham⁵

¹ Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
² School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Internal Medicine Department, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
³ School of Medicine, Pontífice Universidade Católica, Internal Medicine Department, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Fundação Hospitalar de Estado de Minas Gerais - FHEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.

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