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Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension following long-term peripherally inserted central venous catheter use

Pulmonary Circulation, 2019
A 36-year-old woman presented with recurrent pulmonary emboli (PE) despite oral anticoagulation. She was a type I diabetic with severe gastroparesis requiring insertion of multiple long-term peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) over a 10-year ...
Abigail Masding, Stephen D. Preston, Mark Toshner, Joseph Barnett, Carl Harries, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Aleksander Kempny, Colm McCabe, David P. Jenkins, S. John Wort, Laura C. Price   +10 more
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Prospective clinical assessment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension switched from bosentan to macitentan (POTENT)

Pulmonary Circulation, 2022
Even though pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) remains an incurable disease, the combination of PAH‐specific therapies allowed treatment strategies to evolve from symptom‐based ones to others that aim to move patients to low‐risk conditions ...
Abdullah M. Aldalaan, Sarfraz A. Saleemi, Ihab Weheba, Abeer Abdelsayed, Maha M. Aleid, Fatima Alzubi, Hamdeia Zaytoun, Nadeen Alharbi   +7 more
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Hypochromic red cells as a prognostic indicator of survival among patients with systemic sclerosis screened for pulmonary hypertension

Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2023
Background Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) are frequently affected by iron deficiency, particularly those with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The first data indicate the prognostic importance of hypochromic red cells (% HRC) > 2% among patients with
Panagiota Xanthouli, Ojan Gordjani, Nicola Benjamin, Satenik Harutyunova, Benjamin Egenlauf, Alberto M. Marra, Simon Haas, Nicklas Milde, Norbert Blank, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Christoph Fiehn, Silvia Ulrich, Oliver Distler, Ekkehard Grünig, Christina A. Eichstaedt   +14 more
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Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Left Heart Disease: Diagnosis, Pathophysiology, and Therapy.

HYPERTENSION, 2020
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) due to left heart disease (LHD) is the most common type of PH and is defined as mean pulmonary artery systolic pressure of >20 mm Hg and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure >15 mm Hg during right heart catheterization.
M. Al-Omary, S. Sugito, A. Boyle, A. Sverdlov, N. Collins   +4 more
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Pulmonary Hypertension [PDF]

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2015
Pulmonary hypertension is said to occur when the mean pulmonary arterial pressure exceeds 25 mmHg at rest or 30 mmHg during exercise. There are many causes but the term Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is used to describe a rare group of illnesses that share histopathological similarities in the small muscularised pulmonary arterioles leading to ...
Ali Ataya, Johan Barretto, John Wynne
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Pulmonary hypertension associated with left-sided heart disease

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2017
Pulmonary hypertension associated with left-sided heart disease (PH-LHD) is the most common type of pulmonary hypertension. In patients with left-sided heart disease, the presence of pulmonary hypertension is typically a marker of more advanced disease,
Micha T. Maeder, Otto D. Schoch, Rebekka Kleiner, Lucas Joerg, Daniel Weilenmann, Swiss Medical Weekly   +5 more
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The patient experience of pulmonary hypertension: a large cross-sectional study of UK patients

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019
Background Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK (PHA-UK) is the only charity in the UK especially for people affected by pulmonary hypertension (PH).
Iain Armstrong, Catherine Billings, David G. Kiely, Janelle Yorke, Carl Harries, Shaun Clayton, Wendy Gin-Sing   +6 more
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ACTRIIA-Fc rebalances activin/GDF versus BMP signaling in pulmonary hypertension

Science Translational Medicine, 2020
ACTRIIA-Fc, an activin and GDF8/11 ligand trap, improves hemodynamics and exerts antiremodeling effects in experimental pulmonary hypertension. Remedying pulmonary vascular remodeling Alterations in bone morphogenetic protein, growth and differentiation ...
L. Yung, Peiran Yang, S. Joshi, Z. Augur, S. S. Kim, G. Bocobo, T. Dinter, L. Troncone, Po-Sheng Chen, Po-Sheng Chen, Megan E. McNeil, M. Southwood, S. Frías, J. Knopf, I. Rosas, D. Sako, R. Pearsall, J. Quisel, Gang Li, Ravindra Kumar, P. Yu   +20 more
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Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2013
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a rare disease in newborns, infants, and children that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In the majority of pediatric patients, PH is idiopathic or associated with congenital heart disease and rarely is associated with other conditions such as connective tissue or thromboembolic disease.
Ivy, D Dunbar, Abman, Steven H, Barst, Robyn J, Berger, Rolf M F, Bonnet, Damien, Fleming, Thomas R, Haworth, Sheila G, Raj, J Usha, Rosenzweig, Erika B, Schulze Neick, Ingram, Steinhorn, Robin H, Beghetti, Maurice   +11 more
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Definition, classification and diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension

European Respiratory Journal
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a haemodynamic condition characterised by elevation of mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) >20 mmHg, assessed by right heart catheterisation.
Gabor Kovacs, Sonja Bartolome, C. Denton, M. A. Gatzoulis, Sue Gu, Dinesh Khanna, David B. Badesch, D. Montani   +7 more
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