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The Pulmonary Hypertension Association has just launched a Transplant E-mail Group, designed to support and educate those who are waiting for or interested in applying for a potentially life-saving lung transplant. There is still no known cure for pulmonary hypertension, which is a…

The University of California San Diego Health System, a leader in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) research and patient care, has just received a generous grant to fund the recent launch of the country’s first CTEPH registry. The $7.6 million grant comes from pharmaceutical giant Bayer HealthCare in time for the November Pulmonary…

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is uniformly defined as high pressure in the pulmonary vasculature but can be divided into three groups: active, passive, and reactive. According to the Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care of Chinese University of Hong Kong, passive PH is due to high…

Critical care company Ikaria, Inc. and biopharmaceutical company Lee’s Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited (Lee’s Pharm) have just signed signed a new agreement to drive the registration and commercial approval of INOMAX® (nitric oxide), a breakthrough inhaled treatment of hypoxic respiratory failure (HRF), in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The drug will be offered as a Total Care…

Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute (VHVI) is offering a novel and specialized surgical approach for treating patients suffering from chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), a form of pulmonary hypertension (PH) that can cause breathing difficulties, acute pulmonary embolism, or blood clots in the lung. Even though the condition…

Bayer HealthCare recently launched a contest with the goal of raising awareness about pulmonary hypertension (PH) and gathering support for PH patients and their families. Of particular focus in this contest is a type of PH called CTEPH, or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Breathless Moments…

Combining two drug therapies, statins and imatinib, may be more beneficial for pulmonary hypertension management than using either alone. The laboratory of Daria Orszulak-Michalak in Poland investigated co-administration of rosuvastatin or simvastatin with imatinib in rats with experimentally-induced pulmonary hypertension and found a benefit in reducing disease severity. Both…

November is Prematurity Awareness Month, and in light of World Prematurity Day celebrated yesterday, November 17, Nationwide Children’s Hospital shared with the pulmonary hypertension community the benefits of administering Sildenafil to premature newborn babies with pulmonary hypertension. Sildenafil is a phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitor more popularly…

A new study highlighting a diagnostic test based on peripheral blood for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis entitled “Familial and sporadic idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: making the diagnosis from peripheral blood” was recently published in BMC Genomics by Eric B Meltzer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In this study, the…

New research presented at the American College of Rheumatology’s Annual Meeting in Boston claims that end-stage lung disease patients with diseases like Scleroderma should not be denied the opportunity of receiving a lung transplant because of extra-pulmonary factors and, consequently, short- and long-term survival concerns. The…

November 18th has been officially named chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) Awareness Day. This will be the first ever awareness day dedicated specifically to CTEPH. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is caused by chronic blood clots in the lungs that cause pressure in the pulmonary arteries and the right side…

Photo of Roseanne Huber from https://phadailybeat.blogspot.pt The Pulmonary Hypertension Association recently reached out to running enthusiast and pulmonary hypertension patient Roseanne Huber from Florida to share her insightful story of taking control of her condition. Huber was diagnosed with the life-threatening disease in 2006…