Clinical and genetic characteristics of pulmonary arterial hypertension in Lebanon
Abou Hassan OK, Haidar W, BouAkl I et al.
KEYWORDS
BMPR2; Mutation; Pulmonary hypertension
BACKGROUND - Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease with an incidence rate of 2-6 cases per million per year. Our knowledge of the disease in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is limited by the small number of clinical studies and the complete absence of genetic studies.