A clinical trial to study a therapy that may inhibit and possibly reverse vascular remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is expected to start enrolling patients in 2019. The medicine, C76, was shown to inhibit a gene called HIF-2α and to lead to reversal of PAH in animal models. The study…
Patients undergoing a minimally invasive surgery known as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) can improve their quality of life, according to a new study. The study also showed that persistent severe pulmonary hypertension (PH) after the TAVR procedure, in comparison to severe PH at baseline before the intervention, is a strong predictor of…
Researchers from the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School in Germany recently released findings from a study in which they investigated the theory that the capillary pCO2 (pcCO2) may help in distinguishing between idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) and pulmonary hypertension due to heart failure with preserved ejection…
A group of pulmonary medical specialists from the University of South Paris School of Medicine (USPSM) in France have conducted a robust review study that examines the increasing number of potential novel therapeutic drug targets for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The study team, led by…
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