When you live with a chronic and complex illness, complications and side effects from the medications to treat it are always lurking around the corner — even in the most stable of times. The more dramatic setbacks of living with pulmonary hypertension (PH) have included things like getting sick…
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Overproduction of the naturally occurring hormone adrenomedullin, or ADM, helped protect neonatal mice from experimental bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and related pulmonary hypertension (PH), a study reports. “These findings strongly support the potential of ADM therapy for infants with BPD-PH,” the researchers wrote in the study, “Adrenomedullin…
Two proteins associated with the aggregation and activation of platelets may serve as biomarkers of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) severity and progression, according to a study conducted in China. The proteins, PAD4 and NOX2, were elevated in platelets of people with CTEPH compared with healthy individuals, suggesting they may…
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