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Left main bronchus compression due to main pulmonary artery dilatation in pulmonary hypertension: two case reports [PDF]

, 2015
. Pulmonary arterial dilatation associated with pulmonary hypertension may result in significant compression of local structures. Left main coronary artery and left recurrent laryngeal nerve compression have been described.
Ariff, B, Davies, R, Gibbs, JS, Gin-Sing, W, Howard, L, Jaijee, SK, O'Regan, DP   +6 more
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Exploratory analysis of the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2017
Background Chronic inflammation emerges as a feature of the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in experimental models. Alterations of circulating cell subsets have been observed in patients with PAH.
Lars Harbaum, Kaaja M. Baaske, Marcel Simon, Tim Oqueka, Christoph Sinning, Antonia Glatzel, Nicole Lüneburg, Karsten Sydow, Carsten Bokemeyer, Hans Klose   +9 more
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Transient but not genetic loss of miR-451 attenuates the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension [PDF]

, 2013
<b>Rationale:</b> MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNAs involved in the regulation of gene expression and have recently been implicated in the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
Baker, Andrew H., Dempsie, Yvonne, Grant, Jennifer S., MacLean, Margaret R., Morecroft, Ian, van Rooij, Eva   +5 more
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Resistant hypertension after renal infarction in a man with fibromuscular dysplasia

Blood Pressure, 2021
We report the case of 39-year-old Caucasian man presenting in emergency department with new onset of severe hypertension with hypokalaemia eight weeks after renal colic. Patient was referred to a hypertension unit for further investigation.
Nikolina Bukal, Dražen Perkov, Luka Penezić, Bojan Jelaković, Živka Dika   +4 more
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Clinical phenotyping of plasma thrombospondin-2 reveals relationship to right ventricular structure and function in pulmonary hypertension

ERJ Open Research, 2023
Background Converging evidence from proteogenomic analyses prioritises thrombospondin-2 (TSP2) as a potential biomarker for idiopathic or heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
Anna M. Dittrich, Julia Mienert, Julian Pott, Lena Engels, Christoph Sinning, Jan K. Hennigs, Hans Klose, Lars Harbaum   +7 more
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Vascular smooth muscle contraction in hypertension [PDF]

, 2018
Hypertension is a major risk factor for many common chronic diseases, such as heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, vascular dementia and chronic kidney disease.
Alves-Lopes, Rheure, Anagnostopoulou, Aikaterini, Arner, Anders, De Lucca Camargo, Livia, Montezano, Augusto C., Rios, Francisco J., Touyz, Rhian M.   +6 more
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Metformin reverses development of pulmonary hypertension via aromatase inhibition [PDF]

, 2016
Females are more susceptible to pulmonary arterial hypertension than males, although the reasons remain unclear. The hypoglycemic drug, metformin, is reported to have multiple actions, including the inhibition of aromatase and stimulation of AMP ...
Dean, Afshan, Loughlin, Lynn, MacLean, Margaret R., Nilsen, Margaret, Salt, Ian P.   +4 more
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Cardiovascular consequences of aircraft noise exposure

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
The results from epidemiological studies suggest that environmental noise including aircraft, railway, road traffic, wind turbine, and leisure-related noise is a growing public health concern.
Justyna Ba̧czalska, Wiktoria Wojciechowska, Marta Rojek, Omar Hahad, Andreas Daiber, Thomas Münzel, Marek Rajzer   +6 more
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Response to pulmonary arterial hypertension drug therapies in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and cardiovascular risk factors. [PDF]

, 2014
The age at diagnosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and the prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors are increasing. We sought to determine whether the response to drug therapy was influenced by CV risk factors in PAH patients. We studied
Charalampopoulos, A, Connolly, SB, Davies, RJ, Gibbs, JS, Gin-Sing, W, Grapsa, J, Howard, LS, Nihoyannopoulos, P, Tzoulaki, I, Wilkins, MR   +9 more
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Drug treatment of hypertension: focus on vascular health [PDF]

, 2016
Hypertension, the most common preventable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and death, is a growing health burden. Serious cardiovascular complications result from target organ damage including cerebrovascular disease, heart failure, ischaemic heart
Cameron, Alan C., Lang, Ninian N., Touyz, Rhian M.   +2 more
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