Fahy G, Robinson K, Deb B, Graham I
Department of Cardiology, Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Postgrad Med J. 1992 May;68(799):383-5. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.68.799.383.
Primary pulmonary hypertension is a rare disease of unknown case. Functional hyposplenism is characterized by the appearance of abnormal circulating erythrocytes despite the presence of a spleen and is associated with a variety of disease states. A case of primary pulmonary hypertension associated with functional hyposplenism is described in this report.