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Pulmonary Hypertension: My Struggles

“In this video, Jeremy Diaz tells us about his personal experience with pulmonary hypertension (PH), his struggles and his plans for the future.” Keep updated on all the latest PH news here: https://bit.ly/20LXxHN…

Interview: Sarah Platnar, Mother of a Child With PH

In this 2014 interview for Canadian Channel 12 News Durham, we can listen to Sarah Platnar and her daughter Isabelle sharing the girl’s experience with pulmonary hypertension. Isabelle was diagnosed when she was only nine-months-old. Read all about pulmonary hypertension here: https://bit.ly/20LXxHN…

Last Week’s Hot Topic on Pulmonary Hypertension

Last week’s hot topic on Pulmonary Hypertension was an article titled PAH Clinical Trial of INOpulse Therapy Shows Benefit, New Phase 3 Study Planned, written by Margarida Azevedo. This article refers to the recent announcement of the results from the final analysis of the second…

Charity Tillemann-Dick Gets Behind Project Perseverance

“Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick has persevered against incredible odds with her idiopathic pulmonary hypertension and double lung transplants to return to the stage and sing professionally again. She was inducted into Assurant’s Perseverance Hall of Fame in 2015.” Learn more about pulmonary hypertension: https://bit.ly/1K4oewk…

Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

“In this video, from the Texas Heart Institute, meet Deborah Meyers, MD, and her patient Trasetta Terry, a retired pharmacist who tells us about her experience with thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.” Keep up to date on all the latest PH news here: https://bit.ly/20LXxHN…

Lung Transplant: Patient and Caregiver Experience

https://vimeo.com/128405101 “Meet some patients who have undergone lung transplant surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as well as their caregivers, and listen to their experiences prior, during and after transplantation.” Keep updated on pulmonary hypertension news here: https://bit.ly/20LXxHN…

Pulmonary Hypertension and Sickle Cell Anemia

In a recent collaborative research project published in the PLOS one journal entitled “Risk Factors of Pulmonary Hypertension in Brazilian Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia,” researchers suggest that patients suffering from sickle cell anemia (SCA) have higher risks of developing pulmonary hypertension (PH). A number of risk…

Genetic ‘Junk’ May Play Key Role in Pulmonary Hypertension

A recent study suggests that RNA fragments called microRNAs (miRNAs), long thought of as genetic “junk,” actually control the production of endothelial cells, whose over-proliferation is responsible for the development of pulmonary hypertension (PH). The study, published in the Experimental Biology and Medicine journal, is titled “microRNA-125a in pulmonary hypertension: Regulator of a…