Pulmonary hypertension (PH) has a high mortality rate if untreated. Unfortunately, the disease is not consistently diagnosed or treated across the United States. To improve the diagnosis and care of ...
What is persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn? In short, PPHN is a serious breathing problem that affects very young babies. It usually affects babies born at full term or at 34 weeks or ...
Winrevair, also known as sotatercept-csrk, is a medicine used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which causes high blood pressure in the arteries that go from your heart to your lungs.
In ‘Made in SG’ Melanie Oliveiro profiles the locally founded Pulmonary Hypertension Support Group (PHSG), a patient support ...
This content was provided by George Washington University Hospital. Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc, is a fellowship-trained cardiologist and professor of medicine at GW Medicine, who also serves as ...
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello, and welcome to this InDiscussion Medscape podcast on pulmonary hypertension (PH). We're here today to talk about some ...
Although more women than men have pulmonary arterial hypertension, several PAH medications are teratogenic, according to a ...
When Heather Kauffman was a child, her brother BJ died when he was 5 of what she thought at the time was a “rare lung disease.” For much of her life, she had no idea what it was and just knew that ...
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 ...