ALLMedicine™ Primary Pulmonary Hypertension Center

Oct 14th, 2022 - Introduction: Primary pulmonary hypertension, now known as idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), a subgroup of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), is a rare disorder characterized by severe morbidity and high mortality rates. There...

Oct 14th, 2022 - We propose a randomized trial to determine the safety and effectiveness of aerobic exercise for patients who have primary pulmonary hypertension (PH) or PH secondary to interstitial lung disease (ILD). This project will be the first in a series of...

Oct 1st, 2022 - Lung transplantation (LuTx) is a challenge when right heart function fails. Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) is then necessary. We aimed to investigate whether preoperative transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) can predict MCS use and help to e...

Aug 27th, 2022 - Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) are frequently used to treat pain, fever and inflammatory conditions. Due to evidenced fetotoxicity, treatment with NSAID and metamizole should be avoided in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy. There is an...

Aug 19th, 2022 - A systematic review was conducted to determine the risk/associated factors for pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis, including clinical/disease characteristics, antibody status, test results and biomarkers. The frequency of public...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Introduction: Primary pulmonary hypertension, now known as idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), a subgroup of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), is a rare disorder characterized by severe morbidity and high mortality rates. There...

Oct 14th, 2022 - We propose a randomized trial to determine the safety and effectiveness of aerobic exercise for patients who have primary pulmonary hypertension (PH) or PH secondary to interstitial lung disease (ILD). This project will be the first in a series of...

Aug 19th, 2022 - A systematic review was conducted to determine the risk/associated factors for pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis, including clinical/disease characteristics, antibody status, test results and biomarkers. The frequency of public...

Feb 23rd, 2022 - Myocardial infarction is a serious common disease in human beings. Although many patients with acute myocardial infarction survive with the improvement of medical technology in recent years, studies have shown that cardiac remodeling caused by myo...

Jan 20th, 2021 - Primary whose mechanisms are incompletely known, is another vascular disease entity recently described in chronic kidney disease particularly in patients undergoing haemodialysis. It corresponds to 5th subtype of World Symposium on Pulmonary Hyper...

Aug 16th, 2015 - I have looked into my genome and seen ... nothing much to worry about. I carry 15 rare genetic variants that have been associated with some form of disease, but I am heterozygous for all of them -- I have one intact copy of the same gene. So I car...

May 19th, 2014 - Endothelin inhibitors Endothelin inhibitors also may play a role in vascular protection. Endothelin is secreted in scleroderma and is a potent vasoconstrictor.

Apr 20th, 2012 - Answer Right ventricular hypertrophy Discussion In this tracing, QRS axis tends to the right axis deviation (RAD), which should make one think of right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) first. After the RAD, all other diagnostic features of RVH are fo...

Dec 29th, 2011 - Question: A woman developed primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) 4 years after she had stopped using the prescription weight-loss drug, fenfluramine. The drug is known to cause valvular heart lesions as well as PPH.

Nov 28th, 2011 - November 28, 2011 (Chicago, Illinois) — Approximately half of the neonates who receive extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) have cerebral atrophy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown that the N-acetylaspartate/creatine (NAA/Cr) ratio ...