Frailty and accelerated aging are common in pulmonary hypertension, with frailty an independent risk factor for early death.
LONDON, England—Patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) undergoing TAVR for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis fare significantly worse than those without increased pre-interventional pulmonary ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Patients admitted with background secondary pulmonary hypertension may have an increased risk for acute kidney injury and adverse outcomes, according to a presenter at the CHEST ...
AJMC: Can you explain the etiology and progression of PAH and the importance of early diagnosis? HASSOUN: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) refers to World Health Organization (WHO) group 1 ...
Charles Burger, MD: Pulmonary hypertension really refers to a state where the right heart is generating high pressures to circulate the blood through the lung. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a ...
For patients who have pulmonary hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (PH-HFpEF), treatment with levosimendan (Simdax; Tenax Therapeutics) can improve both pulmonary ...
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Dr. Miranda Theodore (Medicine): A 28-year-old woman was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) of this hospital because of progressive respiratory failure. The patient had been in her usual ...