It impacts the right side of the heart and arteries in the lungs. There can be various causes influencing the onset of ...

The treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension—once a lethal ... Ultimately, continuous elevation of PAP and PVR causes failure of the right ventricle, leading to an inability to support ...

Aims Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) appears to be very common in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction but details on ...

Pulmonary hypertension ... autoimmune diseases can also cause this type. The most common form of PH, this type is a ...

Pulmonary hypertension ... and heart condition, elevates blood pressure in lung arteries, causing shortness of breath even during simple tasks. This strain can lead to right heart failure if ...

Unrelenting pulmonary hypertension can cause irreversible damage to the pulmonary vascular bed and lead to eventual right heart failure ( Table 2). The most striking radiographic feature in each ...

A simple, lightweight device worn on the sternum can calculate intracardiac filling pressures, warning that heart failure is ... with post-capillary pulmonary hypertension, other measures can ...