# primary pulmonary hypertension

> chronic pulmonary heart disease characterized by an increase of blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, or pulmonary capillaries, among others, has symptoms shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting, leg swelling

**Wikidata**: [Q18554794](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18554794)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/primary-pulmonary-hypertension


## References

1. Disease Ontology
2. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29
3. [Inxight: Drugs Database](https://drugs.ncats.io/drug/DCR9Z582X0)
4. Heterozygous germline mutations in BMPR2, encoding a TGF-beta receptor, cause familial primary pulmonary hypertension
5. BMPR2 germline mutations in pulmonary hypertension associated with fenfluramine derivatives.
6. Familial primary pulmonary hypertension (gene PPH1) is caused by mutations in the bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II gene
7. A new nonsense mutation of SMAD8 associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension
8. A novel channelopathy in pulmonary arterial hypertension
9. Whole exome sequencing to identify a novel gene (caveolin-1) associated with human pulmonary arterial hypertension
10. [Identifiers.org](https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doid)