Researchers have identified a disease mechanism that could be targeted to develop treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). In a…
Magdalena Kegel
Magdalena is a writer with a passion for bridging the gap between the people performing research, and those who want or need to understand it. She writes about medical science and drug discovery. She holds an MS in Pharmaceutical Bioscience and a PhD — spanning the fields of psychiatry, immunology, and neuropharmacology — from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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Articles by Magdalena Kegel
Noninvasive methods can help to determine which patients have a high probability of developing pulmonary hypertension (PH) and which are most…
A woman with the genetic disease neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who developed pulmonary hypertension (PH) was successfully treated with a…
A molecule linked to pulmonary hypertension (PH) in earlier studies failed to serve as a biomarker of disease severity or prognosis…
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center received a $7.3 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to…
Although women with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are advised to avoid pregnancy, increasing numbers opt to tackle the risks to have…
Researchers have identified a noninvasive way to predict disease outcomes in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) that uses three-dimensional…
Measures of pulmonary arterial capacitance (PAC) may help to predict the risk of heart problems in patients with pulmonary hypertension caused by…
Researchers suggest that a protein called ED-A+ Fn (ED-A domain containing fibronectin) could serve as a marker for pulmonary hypertension (PH),…
Medications that specifically trigger cell death in remodeled blood vessels, without damaging the heart or healthy blood vessels, may be used to…
Treating stored red blood cells with nitric oxide before a transfusion lessens the risk that a patient will develop pulmonary…
Inhalation treatment that uses either nitric oxide or Ventavis (iloprost) is equally effective in managing lingering high lung blood pressure after surgery…