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A protein called RAGE was found to be an important contributor to the remodeling of blood vessels in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). This is an important finding because it could lead researchers to develop new strategies that target RAGE protein as a potential treatment for the life-threatening disease. The RAGE protein,…

Pregnancy among women with heart diseases is generally safe, with just a few deaths being reported in the ROPAC registry during a 10-year period. However, pregnancy was found to be linked to an increased mortality risk among women with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The most recent results of this…

Use of antidepressants during pregnancy doubles the risk for persistent pulmonary hypertension in the newborn (PPHN), a systematic review of several studies suggests. Out of the antidepressants analyzed, researchers proposed sertraline (brand name Zoloft, marketed by…

PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals has secured $34 million in Series D financing to advance the clinical development of PB1046, an investigational therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), as well as its lead product candidate PB2452, the company announced in a press release. PB1046 is being developed as a once-weekly…

United Therapeutics and MannKind established a worldwide exclusive licensing and agreement to develop and commercialize a dry powder formulation of treprostinil, an approved vasodilator, for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) that is now being tested along with the Technosphere inhalation device (a drug delivery system). The agreement gives…

Actelion Pharmaceuticals has filed a request with the European Medicines Agency for the expanded approval of Opsumit (macitentan) as a treatment for adults with moderate to severe inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), the company announced. If the EMA approves the submitted type II variation to…

Levosimendan, an investigational therapy for pulmonary hypertension associated with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (PH-HFpEF), was found to improve workings of the kidneys in PH-HFpEF patients with kidney impairment in a Phase 3 clinical trial. Findings from the study, “Differential effects of levosimendan and dobutamine on glomerular…

Extended-release tablets of ralinepag, Arena Pharmaceuticals’ treatment candidate for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), show a superior pharmacokinetic profile over both immediate-release ralinepeg capsules and approved immediate-release medication Uptravi (selexipag), according to two Phase 1 trials in healthy volunteers. Pharmacokinetics (PK) refer to how a drug is absorbed,…

Antidote Technologies, a digital health company, and phaware global association, an organization advocating for pulmonary hypertension (PH) awareness, will join forces to create a new recruitment system for pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs) to enroll patients with chronic lung diseases in their clinical trials. The…

More pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients were able to achieve complete daily inhalations after switching to a more concentrated formulation of Ventavis (iloprost), which also reduced the duration of each treatment administration, an observational study reports. The study looked at the inhalation behavior of PAH patients who were switched from…

Evaluation of Midkine (MDK) and Follistatin-like 3 (FSTL3) protein levels in the blood can help identify patients with systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (SSc-PAH), researchers suggest. The study, “Serum biomarker for diagnostic evaluation of pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis” was published in the journal…

Intravenous treatment with the approved heart failure medicine milrinone leads to significant improvements in heart structure and function in patients with mild-to-moderate pulmonary hypertension (PH) due to left heart disease, a study has found.” The report titled “Study on the clinical efficacy of specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor in patients…