Ayerza syndrome

A·yer·za syn·drome

(ah-yār'shah),

sclerosis of the pulmonary arteries in chronic cor pulmonale; associated with severe cyanosis, it is a condition resembling polycythemia vera but resulting from primary pulmonary arteriosclerosis or primary pulmonary hypertension and characterized by plexiform lesions of arterioles.

Synonym(s): Ayerza disease, cardiopathia nigra, plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy

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A·yer·za syn·drome

(ah-yer'sah sin'drōm)

Sclerosis of the pulmonary arteries in chronic cor pulmonale; associated with severe cyanosis, it is a condition resembling polycythemia vera but resulting from primary pulmonary arteriosclerosis or primary pulmonary hypertension and characterized by plexiform lesions of arterioles.

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Ayerza,

Abel, Argentinian physician, 1861-1918.

Ayerza-Arrillaga disease - Synonym(s): Ayerza syndrome

Ayerza disease - Synonym(s): Ayerza syndrome

Ayerza syndrome - sclerosis of the pulmonary arteries in chronic cor pulmonale. Synonym(s): Ayerza-Arrillaga disease; Ayerza disease; cardiopathia nigra; plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy

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