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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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Impact of targeted pulmonary arterial hypertension therapies in severe pulmonary hypertension in chronic lung diseases

ERJ Open Research, 2023
Research questions Patients with severe pulmonary hypertension associated with chronic lung disease have a poor prognosis. Targeted pulmonary arterial hypertension therapies might improve exercise capacity and outcome, but there are no guidelines on ...
Romain Naud, Julien Bermudez, Noémie Resseguier, Ana Nieves, Bérengère Coltey, Nadine Dufeu, Clarisse Gautier, Youssef Trigui, Marc Laine, Benjamin Coiffard, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert   +10 more
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Riociguat for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Riociguat, a member of a new class of compounds (soluble guanylate cyclase stimulators), has been shown in previous clinical studies to be beneficial in the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. METHODS: In this phase 3,
CHEST-1 Study Group,, D'Armini, AM, Fritsch, A, Ghofrani, HA, Grimminger, F, Hoeper, MM, Jansa, P, Kim, NH, Mayer, E, Neuser, D, Simonneau, G, Wang, C, Weimann, G, Wilkins, MR   +13 more
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Role of prostacyclin in pulmonary hypertension [PDF]

, 2014
Date of Acceptance: 11/12/2014 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is ...
Ali FY, Butrous G, Chester AH, Geiger LE, Newsholme SJ, Nguyen H, Ruan CH, Smith WL, Whittaker N   +8 more
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Temporal Trends in Diagnostic Hemodynamics and Survival of Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension: A Single-Center Study

Life, 2023
Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH) have gradually improved the disease course. This retrospective cohort study aims to explore the diagnostic hemodynamic profile and survival of PH patients and their temporal changes ...
Georgios E. Papadopoulos, Alexandra Arvanitaki, Eleftherios Markidis, Sophia Anastasia Mouratoglou, Ioannis T. Farmakis, Panagiotis Gourgiotis, Thomas Chrysochoidis Trantas, Christos Feloukidis, Antonios Kouparanis, Matthaios Didagelos, Vasilis Grosomanidis, Antonios Ziakas, George Giannakoulas   +12 more
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Molecular and functional analysis identifies ALK-1 as the predominant cause of pulmonary hypertension related to hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia. [PDF]

, 2003
BACKGROUND\ud \ud Mutations of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) receptor components ENDOGLIN and ALK-1 cause the autosomal dominant vascular disorder hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT).
Harrison, R E, Flanagan, J A, Sankelo, M, Abdalla, S A, Rowell, J, Machado, R D, Elliott, C G, Robbins, I M, Olschewski, H, McLaughlin, V, Gruenig, E, Kermeen, F, Halme, M, Räisänen-Sokolowski, A, Laitinen, T, Morrell, N W, Trembath, R C   +16 more
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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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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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Role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in Sugen 5416-induced experimental pulmonary hypertension [PDF]

, 2018
Rationale: Rats dosed with the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor Sugen 5416 (Su), placed in hypoxia then restored to normoxia has become a widely used model of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
Dean, Afshan, Docherty, Craig K., Gregorc, Teja, Harvey, Katie Y., MacLean, Margaret R., Morrell, Nicholas W., Nilsen, Margaret   +6 more
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Tetrahydrobiopterin analogues with NO-dependent pulmonary vasodilator properties [PDF]

, 2011
Reduced NO levels due to the deficiency of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) contribute to impaired vasodilation in pulmonary hypertension Due to the chemically unstable nature of BH4 it was hypothesised that oxidatively stable analogues of BR, would be able to ...
Gibson, Colin, Kunuthur, S. P., Milliken, P. H., Suckling, C. J., Wadsworth, R. M.   +4 more
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