Clinical Study
Intravascular Talcosis due to Intravenous Drug Use Is an Underrecognized Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension
Table 2
Anatomic features of intravascular talcosis.
| | Average organ weights (grams) | [range] |
| | Lungs | (1894) | 1490–2490 | | Heart | (600) | 350–1030 | | Liver | (2421) | 1300–4110 | | Spleen | (437) | 80–860 |
| | Average heart valve circumference (cm) | |
| | Mitral | (10.9) | 10.5–11.5 | | Aortic | (7.2) | 6.5–8 | | Tricuspid | (13.5) | 12–15.5 | | Pulmonic | (8.5) | 7–10 |
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