pulmonary hypertension
medical condition
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Summary
pulmonary hypertension is a class of disease[1]. It draws 3,176 Wikipedia views per month (class of disease category, ranking #249 of 1,968).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
- Subclass of: hypertension[4], arterial hypertension[5]
- Commons category: Pulmonary hypertension[6]
- ICPC 2 ID: K82[7]
- Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[8]
- Has characteristic: abnormally high value[9]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C3120[10]
- Health specialty: cardiology[11], pulmonology[12]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: bosentan[13], alprostadil[14], treprostinil[15], pharmaceutical preparation of nitroglycerin[16], hydralazine[17], prostacyclin[18], macitentan[19], tiotropium[20], (5E)-5-[(3aS,5R,6aS)-5-Hydroxy-4-[(1E,3S)-3-hydroxy-4-methyl-1-octen-6-yn-1-yl]hexahydro-2(1H)-pentalenylidene]pentanoic acid[21], tadalafil[22], bosentan hydrate[23], riociguat[24], selexipag[25], sildenafil[26]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_6432[27], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:6432[28]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[29]
Why It Matters
pulmonary hypertension has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]