Many roadblocks exist to detecting and assessing pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) ...

Aims Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) appears to be very common in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction but details on its prevalence, severity and prognostic implications have not been well ...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing allows for a comprehensive assessment of the mechanism of exercise limitation in pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

While a small amount of backflow may occur ordinarily, it is usually only shown on an echocardiogram and is harmless. More pronounced regurgitation that is noticed through a routine physical ...

Ferrer is using Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month to sound ... The surveyed clinicians highlighted more frequent echocardiogram screening in ILD as a way to improve the diagnostic pathway.

Her LVEF was 55% with hypokinesia of the inferior wall and a mild MR ... day she left, an echocardiogram was performed and demonstrated a moderate MR with no pulmonary hypertension.

It has to be emphasized that the discussed research findings have a direct implication for the daily clinical care of SSc patients: those patients with minimal to mild skin fibrosis—who are ...

They are also ever-changing, as new science emerges on what does and doesn’t work in the best interests of the patient. The more a healthcare provider sees patients with any disease, such as pulmonary ...

The history of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is rich in remarkable discoveries, Nobel prize winners, translational research, international collaboration, guidelines implementation, and patient ...

This difference becomes clear in pulmonary hypertension, in which only the lungs' blood vessels stiffen progressively, leading ... Researchers Identify Over 2,000 Genetic Signals Linked to Blood ...