Marta Ribeiro,  —

Marta graduated from Universidade Fernando Pessoa in Porto with a degree in Communication Sciences and a Masters degree in New Communication Technologies. She has experience in social media, worked with several media channels, and has also worked as a freelance photographer and a graphic artist for almost 10 years.

Articles by Marta Ribeiro

Charity Tillemann-Dick Gets Behind Project Perseverance

“Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick has persevered against incredible odds with her idiopathic pulmonary hypertension and double lung transplants to return to the stage and sing professionally again. She was inducted into Assurant’s Perseverance Hall of Fame in 2015.” Learn more about pulmonary hypertension: http://bit.ly/1K4oewk…

Beverly’s Pulmonary Hypertension Story

Beverly McGregor, a Pulmonary Hypertension patient, tells her story. Pulmonary hypertension is continuous high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery. The average blood pressure in a normal pulmonary artery is about 14 mmHg when the person is resting. In PH, blood pressure is usually greater than 25 mmHg.

Portopulmonary Hypertension: What You Need to Know

Hilary DuBrock, Pulmonary Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, highlights two posters presented at the 2015 ATS annual conference. The first of these studies was a comparison of endothelin gradients across the pulmonary circulation of patients with PPHTN versus patients with cirrhosis. The second study looked at post transplant outcomes…