Tag John Torrey Berger

Pulmonary Hypertension

Pulmonary Hypertension Pulmonary hypertension describes a number of different diseases involving the pulmonary vasculature, which have common hemodynamic, histologic, and therapeutic features. The hallmark of these diseases is an abnormally high pulmonary vascular resistance. The histologic changes such as medial…

Myocarditis

This chapter discusses inflammatory diseases of the heart, excluding rheumatic fever (see Chapters 55 and 56 ), Kawasaki disease (see Chapter 54 ), pericarditis (see Chapter 58 ), and infectious endocarditis (see Chapter 57 ). It focuses on those diseases…