This podcast series, created and produced by phaware, is being offered as a regular guest feature on Pulmonary Hypertension News to bring the voices and life experiences of PH patients, family members, caregivers, healthcare specialists, and others to our readers. You may listen to the podcast directly, or read it…

Ventripoint Diagnostics‘ VMS Heart Analysis System, which produces a two-dimensional (2D) volumetric reconstruction model of the heart, accurately measures small changes in the heart’s right ventricle volume and can be used in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH), a new study finds. The study, “Two-dimensional knowledge-based volumetric reconstruction of the…

Adcirca (tadalafil) exerts a variety of positive effects that may explain why the therapy improves idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), according to an in vitro study. The study, “Tadalafil induces antiproliferation, apoptosis, and phosphodiesterase type 5 downregulation in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension in vitro,” was published…

This podcast series, created and produced by phaware, is being offered as a regular guest feature on Pulmonary Hypertension News to bring the voices and life experiences of PH patients, family members, caregivers, healthcare specialists, and others to our readers. You may listen to the podcast directly, or read it…

This podcast series, created and produced by phaware, is being offered as a regular guest feature on Pulmonary Hypertension News to bring the voices and life experiences of PH patients, family members, caregivers, healthcare specialists, and others to our readers. You may listen to the podcast directly, or read it…

The Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) has expanded its Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers (PHCC) network by accrediting two new pulmonary hypertension (PH) programs as Centers for Comprehensive Care (CCC). The two new additions, the Pulmonary Hypertension Programs at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and…

The survival rate of pulmonary hypertension patients who received heart and lung transplants increased after France began giving transplant priority to those experiencing life-threatening episodes, a study reports. The high-priority list covered PH patients who had signed up for heart-lung transplants, or HLTs, and double lung transplants, or  DLTs. Researchers published…

This podcast series, created and produced by phaware, is being offered as a regular guest feature on Pulmonary Hypertension News to bring the voices and life experiences of PH patients, family members, caregivers, healthcare specialists, and others to our readers. You may listen to the podcast directly, or read it…

This podcast series, created and produced by phaware, is being offered as a regular guest feature on Pulmonary Hypertension News to bring the voices and life experiences of PH patients, family members, caregivers, healthcare specialists, and others to our readers. You may listen to…

This podcast series, created and produced by phaware, is being offered as a regular guest feature on Pulmonary Hypertension News to bring the voices and life experiences of PH patients, family members, caregivers, healthcare specialists, and others to our readers. You may listen to the podcast directly, or…

In this video from the Fondazione Internazionale Menarini, Dr. Vittorio Pengo discusses his presentation of the pathophysiology and treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). MORE: Find out how doctors diagnosed pulmonary hypertension and CTEPH. Dr. Pengo explains that CTEPH is a treatable disease that occurs in 0.5…

In this video from Living Healthy Chicago, Jack Wilk shares the story of his chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) diagnosis. A study finds that international diagnosis and management practices for CTEPH are inadequate. Read more here.  Jack first started to notice symptoms five years ago when he began to get…