Clinical and Electrocardiographic Evaluation of Sickle-Cell Anaemia Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension

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                * Statistically significant (2 sided), PAP = pulmonary artery pressure, and SD = standard deviation.<br/></td></tr></table>

Mean pulmonary artery pressure in patients compared with controls.

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Table 3: Clinical and Electrocardiographic Evaluation of Sickle-Cell Anaemia Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension 