People living with CTEPH face significant symptoms that affect daily life, even when receiving treatment, a real-world U.S.

A new report shows wide variability in terms of which patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are deemed eligible for pulmonary endarterectomy and balloon pulmonary ...

A long-term analysis designed by Christian Gerges and Irene Lang at the Department of Medicine II of the University Hospital Vienna and MedUni Vienna indicates that one-third of patients with chronic ...

NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A blood clot in the legs or pelvis is serious enough. However, it can also lead to another condition that threatens the lungs and heart called CTEPH. For one CTEPH patient ...

Filing supported by data from MERIT-1 trial evaluating OPSUMIT in adults with inoperable CTEPH which showed significant improvements in pulmonary vascular resistance and six-minute walk distance (6MWD ...

Imagine it’s so difficult to breathe that just walking across a room is difficult—and no one can tell you why. Your condition gets worse and worse, you find yourself faced with life-threatening ...

Like highways, roads, and side streets, blood vessels in the human body come in different sizes, with a range of traffic-carrying capacities. These differences are critical to facilitating blood flow ...

The long-term outcomes of operated and nonoperated patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension were reported in a large, prospective, multicentre, European and Canadian registry. The ...

Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy is a surgery used to treat chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. It’s the treatment of choice for this condition. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this Medscape InDiscussion podcast. Today we're talking about chronic thromboembolic pulmonary ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved riociguat (Adempas, Bayer) for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary ...