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Etiology
- Primary pulmonary hypertension
- Chronic pulmonary embolism
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Interstitial lung disease
- Sleep apnea
- Pickwickian syndrome (obesity-hypoventilation syndrome)
- Scleroderma or other connective tissue disease
- Left to right intracardiac shunt
- Drugs or toxins: fenfluramine, dexfenfluramine, phentermine, bleomycin, amiodarone, talc (via IV drug use)
- Radiation
- Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
- Valve disease: mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, aortic stenosis
- Left-sided heart failure
- Atrial myxoma
- High altitude (chronic mountain sickness)
- Polycythemia vera
- Cirrhosis with portal hypertension
- HIV
- Schistosomiasis
- Sickle cell disease
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