Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (or COPD) is a lifelong disease where airflow is blocked from entering your lungs and it’s hard to get enough air into your bloodstream. Many people around the world suffer from COPD and the numbers are increasing every year. With this video shared by …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnjwJTTVmKs&feature=youtu.be Living with a chronic illness means that not all days are good days. Sometimes you wake up feeling unwell but still have to get on and do things, leave your house and face the day. To help you through those rough days, Lauren from …
Pulmonary hypertension (PH)  is a rare lung disease that refers to an increase in blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries. Read about 8 red flag pulmonary hypertension symptoms you should be aware of. Meet Karl. He has had COPD and pulmonary hypertension since 2004.  Following his diagnosis,…
Dr. David Farber, Shirin Shafazand, MD, talks about pulmonary hypertension and discusses its definition, pathophysiology and the several subtypes of PH. AmerThoracicSociety shared this video where you can learn more about it. Read the latest updates on pulmonary hypertension: http://bit.ly/1K4oewk…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azl9FWzLqpw Pulmonary hypertension is an extremely serious and rare condition that can affect anyone, at any age, and either gender. In this video from DiscoverActelion, you can learn more about PH, how Actelion has been supporting the patients’ community throughout the years,…
Pulmonary hypertension is often related to other diseases and conditions, one of them being scleroderma. Dr. Dinesh Khanna, from the University of Michigan, shares some thoughts on how to detect and diagnose PH in systemic sclerosis patients with the help of a two-step algorithm. …
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center shared this extremely accurate video where it’s highlighted that while living with pulmonary hypertension, every single breath matters. Get to know more about pulmonary hypertension patients while watching this amazing video featuring actual PH sufferers and team Phenomenal Hope…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-7QEvrQfHQ Dr. Vinicio de Jesus Perez, from Stanford Medicine, focuses his work on exploring the genetic and molecular mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension. He has devoted his career and studies to the clinical research of possible different and improved diagnosis of this condition and on how the management of PH can be improved in a…
Pulmonary hypertension is a life-threatening disease which currently has no known cure. In this video shared by apollohealthcityhyd, a youtube channel that features patients testimonials, doctor’s videos, procedures and other subjects related to Apollo Health City Hyderabad, watch several physicians from the institute…
Natalie Maria Cole was destined to be famous right from her birth on February 6, 1950. Daughter of the legendary Nat King Cole, Natalie became a star herself and she was one of the most successful singer-songwriters from the mid-1970s. However, after a struggle with pulmonary hypertension, Natalie…
Chloe Temtchine is a very well-known personality on youtube, due to her amazing singing voice and also as being an incredible, recurrent pulmonary hypertension advocate. Living with PH herself, Chloe often shares some of her own experiences with pulmonary hypertension and tips on how to make life easier…
Results from a retrospective study based on a claims database of U.S. patients with pulmonary embolism indicated that physicians are failing to recognize and diagnose thousands of cases of the serious lung disease, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). The study, “Monitoring for Pulmonary…
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