Professor David Kiely, MD, and his team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom, received a national award from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network and Royal College of Physicians. Kiely, who is director of the Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit…
Beta blockers, the cornerstone therapy for left-side heart failure, can improve pulmonary arterial hypertension, a small study indicates. The results suggested that the therapy could help prevent right-side heart failure, the leading cause of death among PAH patients. The study, “Pulmonary arterial hypertension treatment with carvedilol for…
African-Americans with pulmonary hypertension and without health insurance have a two-fold increased risk of dying of this disease compared to white Americans, possibly because of delays in referral and treatment, a retrospective study reports. The study “Health Insurance and Racial Disparities in Pulmonary Hypertension Outcomes,” published in…
Adcirca (tadalafil) exerts a variety of positive effects that may explain why the therapy improves idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), according to an in vitro study. The study, “Tadalafil induces antiproliferation, apoptosis, and phosphodiesterase type 5 downregulation in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension in vitro,” was published…
Bellerophon Therapeutics has updated clinical trials testing its investigative INOpulse system for several forms of pulmonary hypertension (PH). The update is part of the company’s second-quarter 2017 financial report. The INOvation-1 trial (NCT02725372) seeks to evaluate the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of pulsed, inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) compared to placebo…
The Phase 4 multicenter, observational PaTTerN registry evaluating the use of Inomax (nitric oxide) in newborns with pulmonary hypertension (PH) has enrolled its first patient, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals announced. The registry (NCT03132428) is actively recruiting participants, said the British drug conglomerate. Persistent PH in newborns is a serious, sometimes fatal, condition marked by increased pulmonary vascular pressure.
Adcirca (tadalafil) showed an acceptable safety profile and effectiveness in a real-world clinical cohort of pediatric patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in Japan. The study, “Safety and effectiveness of tadalafil in pediatric patients with pulmonary arterial…
Pulmonary hypertension patients who receive prostacyclin for a long time are at higher risk of developing cardiovascular complications after a lung transplant, a Japanese study reports. The research, published in the International Heart Journal, was titled “High Frequency of Acute Adverse Cardiovascular Events After Lung Transplantation in Patients…
The average systemic sclerosis (SSc) patient burdened with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) lives only four years after diagnosis, finds an Australian study, “Survival and quality of life in incident systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension,” that appeared in the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy. PAH is a serious…
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients who fail to respond completely to Adcirca (tadalafil) or Viagra (sildenafil) benefit from Letairis (ambrisentan) as an add-on therapy, according to a study. The research, “Clinical and hemodynamic improvements after adding ambrisentan to background PDE5i therapy in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension exhibiting a…
Letairis (ambrisentan) is a safe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) treatment, according to a confirmation of the clinical trial findings that led to its approval in Europe. European regulators ordered the study to be on the safe side because of the trials’ small patient sample size. In addition to confirming oral…
An imaging technique called optical coherence tomography (OCT) can effectively determine abnormalities in the lung vasculature of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), a study shows. The study, “Optical coherence tomography evaluation of pulmonary arterial vasculopathy in Systemic Sclerosis,” appeared in the journal Scientific…
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