Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Engagement in daily pulmonary artery pressure readings may benefit patients with heart failure. Patients made ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adjusting pulmonary hemodynamics for esophageal pressure in patients with obesity and high pulmonary artery ...

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 ...

Winter Haven resident Glenda Johns’ battle with heart failure — marked by increasing weakness and frequent hospital stays — is a textbook case of how the condition can consume patients’ lives. “Every ...

A negative diastolic stress test may indicate pulmonary hypertension in patients with suspected HFpEF and unexplained dyspnea. About 1 in 5 patients with unexplained dyspnea have pulmonary ...

A review of evidence finds that oxygen therapy may be beneficial for all patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, not just those who develop severe hypoxemia. There are 4 classes of drugs used ...

In patients with predominantly severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), treatment with positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy was associated with clinically ...

Credit: Shutterstock. Researchers studied the changes of pulmonary artery systolic pressure among patients with interstitial lung disease associated with systemic sclerosis receiving rituximab therapy ...

In patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the use of anticoagulants was not associated with improvement in overall survival, and these results were confirmed by an updated meta-analysis.

PAH has been shown to be related to adipocyte dysfunction, obesity, and estrogens. CYP1B1 is highly expressed in adipose tissue and overexpressed in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells in patients ...