Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. jmandel@caregroup.harvard.edu
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D011668
Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease
Pathological process resulting in the fibrous obstruction of the small- and medium-sized PULMONARY VEINS and PULMONARY HYPERTENSION. Veno-occlusion can arise from fibrous proliferation of the VASCULAR INTIMA and VASCULAR MEDIA; THROMBOSIS; or a combination of both.