ALLMedicine™ Pulmonary Hypertension Center

Jul 2nd, 2022 - Cardiovascular involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is heterogeneous and ill-defined. This study aimed to: (i) discover cardiac phenotypes in SSc by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR); (ii) provide a CMR-based algorithm for phenotypic clas...

Jul 2nd, 2022 - Among patients meeting diagnostic criteria for idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), there is an emerging lung phenotype characterised by a low diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) and a smoking history. The present study aim...

Jul 2nd, 2022 - Right ventricular (RV) failure is a critical cause of morbidity and mortality in patients presenting with pulmonary embolism (PE). The presentation of RV failure is based on the combination of clinical findings, laboratory abnormalities, and imagi...

Jul 2nd, 2022 - Pulmonary hypertension (PHTN) may occur in thyroid disorders, especially in hypothyroidism. However, there is increasing evidence of PHTN in hyperthyroidism (HTH). The etiology, clinical course, management, and factors associated with outcomes of ...

Jul 2nd, 2022 - It is unknown whether pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) risk stratification instruments could be helpful to support the decision to list a patient for lung transplantation (LT). Our aim was to evaluate contemporary risk assessment tools in a c...

Aug 24th, 2021 - ISHLT members have recognized the importance of a consensus statement on the evaluation and management of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. The creation of this document required multiple steps, including the engagement ...

Aug 19th, 2021 - Patients with connective tissue disease (CTD) present unique surgical, perioperative, operative, and postoperative challenges related to the often underlying severe pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular dysfunction. The International Societ...

Aug 19th, 2020 - The diagnosis of hypoglycemia and the use of diazoxide have risen in the last decade. Diazoxide is the only Food and Drug Agency-approved pharmacologic treatment for neonatal hypoglycemia caused by hyperinsulinism (HI). Recent publications have hi...

Jul 20th, 2020 - The landscape of pulmonary hypertension (PH) has changed significantly since the last Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Thoracic Society position statement in 2005. Since then, advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology of PH and ...

Mar 9th, 2020 - Significant practice-changing developments have occurred in the care of heart transplantation candidates and recipients over the past decade. This Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Cardiac Transplant Network Position Statement provides evid...

Jul 1st, 2022 - Many of the complications of sickle cell disease, such as stroke, kidney damage, skin ulceration,pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac hypertrophy are prevented, delayed or reduced by inheritance of one of more deletions of the alpha globin genes. O...

Jul 1st, 2022 - This study will be a prospective, longitudinal, observational, single-center, exploratory, natural history study to collect samples and data that will enable prospective explorations of the interaction between environmental exposures and disease p...

Jul 1st, 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...

Jul 1st, 2022 - Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is a condition that occurs in small percentage of obese people, that leads to high carbon dioxide levels and low oxygen levels in the blood. OHS is associated with respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension,...

Jul 1st, 2022 - Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive disorder and the most common genetic disease affecting African-Americans. Approximately 0.15% of African-Americans are homozygous for sickle cell disease, and 8% have sickle cell trait. Acute pain crisi...

Jun 28th, 2022 - Pregnancy termination for medical reasons had been part of the fabric of everyday healthcare in the United States since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v Wade decision, which the current high court overturned in a ruling announced last week. That mea...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello. I'm Dr Vallerie McLaughlin, the Kim A. Eagle Endowed Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I would like to welcome you to today...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - DENVER, Colorado — Monoclonal antibodies, antivirals, immunomodulators, and pulmonary arterial vasodilators top the list of drugs that were most frequently implicated as causes of headaches in a federal side effect database that anyone can contrib...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello, and welcome to this podcast series. I'm Dr Vallerie McLaughlin, the Kim A. Eagle Endowed Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of the Pulmonary Hypertension P...

May 27th, 2022 - Transcatheter implants designed to alleviate high left atrial (LA) pressures — which, as a possible way to treat heart failure (HF) once seemed like a long shot — are emerging as new stars of heart failure research. Clinical trial results have bee...