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Pulmonary Hypertension Association Explains the Disease

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie774xv413A   In this video from GSK, the chairman of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association in the U.K., Iain Armstrong, talks about what pulmonary hypertension (PH) is and how it affects those living with the disease. MORE: Can pulmonary hypertension be prevented? Armstrong explains that the disease affects…

Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Patients Still Benefit Six Months After Balloon Angioplasty

Balloon pulmonary angioplasty, a procedure to widen narrowed lung blood vessels, was still benefitting patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) six months after doctors performed it, a Japanese study found. The procedure increased patients’ cardiac output, or amount of the blood the heart is pumping, and exercise capacity, researchers said.

Early Renal Denervation Improves Pulmonary Hypertension and Survival Rate, Animal Study Shows

Early renal denervation (RDN) treatment improved pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in a rat model, a new study from China showed. The study titled, “Effects of renal denervation on monocrotaline induced pulmonary remodeling,” was published in the journal Oncotarget. Despite the progress achieved with oral therapies over the last two decades, the prognosis…

Doctors Are Doing Inadequate Job of Screening Scleroderma Patients for PAH, Study Concludes

Scientists have long known that people with scleroderma are at increased risk of developing pulmonary arterial hypertension. But many with scleroderma whom doctors suspect of having PAH are not receiving optimal screening for the respiratory condition, a study concludes. Nor are enough scleroderma patients suspected of having pulmonary hypertension being referred for tests that…

Pulmonary Hypertension Therapy Developer MannKind Retains Biopharma Financing Specialist

MannKind Corporation, which is developing the pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) therapy Treprostinil Technosphere, has retained the biopharmaceutical financing specialist Locust Walk to help it raise capital for Treprostinil and other projects. Locust Walk lines up investors and strategic partners for companies like MannKind, which also wants to use its Technosphere technology to develop…

Sixty Pulmonary Hypertension Patients Receive Implanted-pump Therapy-delivery Systems

Researchers implanted a long-term, intravenous therapy-delivery system consisting of internal pumps and catheters in 60 pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients, according to a clinical trial. The IV infusion system, developed by Medtronic, delivers Remodulin (treprostinil). The research team said the system should be easier to use than current therapy-delivery methods.