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Pictures of PAH/PPH
The length of time from exposure to a patient's first developing symptoms of PPH or PAH varies greatly. Thus, it is often several years after the first symptoms appear (usually shortness of breath) before PPH is diagnosed.
| Normal small pulmonary artery with typically thin muscular wall. |  |
| Some of the changes that can occur in primary pulmonary hypertension or pulmonary arterial hypertension: |
| Wall of small pulmonary artery thickens. |  | | Fibrous, or scarred, tissue appears on inner wall of small pulmonary artery. |  | | Bands of scarred tissue build up on inner wall of small pulmonary artery, substantially narrowing the blood vessel. |  |
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