A case series on the use of steroids and mycophenolate mofetil in idiopathic and heritable pulmonary veno-occlusive disease: is there a role for immunosuppression?

Carmel Bergbaum, Chinthaka B. Samaranayake, Alex Pitcher, Emma Weingart, Thomas Semple, Maria Kokosi, Athol U. Wells, David Montani, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Colm McCabe, Aleksander Kempny, Carl Harries, Elizabeth Orchard, S. John Wort, Laura C. Price

Source: Eur Respir J, 57 (6) 2004354; 10.1183/13993003.04354-2020
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