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Which is a more dangerous disease: pulmonary hypertension or pulmonary fibrosis?
4 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Six of one...: They're both awful, awful diseases, and depending on how you get them, equally fatal. Pulm fibrosis almost always leads to some degree of pulmhtn but it has secondary effects on gas exchange, so...
Answered 12/3/2012
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PH versus PF: Pulmonary hypertension (ph) and pulmonary fibrosis (pf) are both serious conditions. When ph and pf occur together, survival is reduced further.
Answered 4/24/2015
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Check with your doc: Both are bad. Check with your lung specialist asap.
Answered 2/12/2013
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