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When pulmonary arterial hypertension complicates connective tissue diseases: we still have not found what we are looking for

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  1. Antonietta Gigante and Silvia Papa have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Antonietta Gigante, Edoardo Rosato & Alberto Maria Marra

  2. Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Silvia Papa, Roberto Badagliacca & Alberto Maria Marra

  3. Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Antonietta Gigante, Silvia Papa, Edoardo Rosato, Roberto Badagliacca & Alberto Maria Marra

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Gigante, A., Papa, S., Rosato, E. et al. When pulmonary arterial hypertension complicates connective tissue diseases: we still have not found what we are looking for. Intern Emerg Med 19, 883–884 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-024-03598-4

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