Treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and sickle cell disease (SCD) with sildenafil (SILD) therapy (walk-phasst): interim report

R. Barst, M. Gladwin, R. Machado, K. Hassell, N. Yovetich, V. Gordeuk, S. Gibbs, J. Little, G. Kato, C. Morris, R. Girgis, D. Badesch, L. Krishnamurti, D. Schraufnagel, E. Berman-Rosenzweig (New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Denver, Chapel Hill, Washington, Bronx, Bethesda, Oakland, Baltimore, United States Of America; London, United Kingdom)

Source: Annual Congress 2009 - Clinical management of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Session: Clinical management of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Session type: Oral Presentation
Number: 171
Disease area: Pulmonary vascular diseases

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