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Blood-flow Measurements Could Predict Outcomes of Heart-related Pulmonary Hypertension, Study Finds

American researchers have identified three blood-flow measurements that could help doctors predict the outcomes of people whose pulmonary hypertension stems from a serious heart condition. The discovery applies to PH patients whose lung blood pressure disorder is associated with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or PH-HFpEF. A diagnosis of…

Bellerophon Is Advancing Its PH Treatment INOpulse Through Clinical Trials

Bellerophon Therapeutics is advancing the clinical trials program of its inhaled INOpulse nitric oxide therapy for pulmonary hypertension (PH) associated with several lung diseases. The company is developing INOpulse for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), PH associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and PH linked to interstitial lung…

Cardiome Shares Updates on Therapies, Including Trevyent for PAH

Cardiome recently shared an update on the development of its therapeutic portfolio, including Trevyent (treprostinil injection) for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) refusal last year to approve a new drug application (NDA) submitted by Trevyent’s licensor SteadyMed,…

British Scientists Developing Advanced Pulmonary Hypertension Imaging

Computer software combined with artificial intelligence can generate advanced imaging techniques for serious diseases such as pulmonary hypertension (PH), improving healthcare, British scientists say. This was the focus of a workshop on digital radiology at Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) that brought together medical researchers, computer scientists, mathematicians…