Aaron Holley, MD, writes that it takes a 'physiologic village' to create activity intolerance after pulmonary embolism, and argues for more use of cardiopulmonary exercise testing to evaluate it.

The 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension Task Force on hemodynamic definitions and clinical classifications defined pulmonary hypertension (PH) as a mean pulmonary artery pressure at rest ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a type of pulmonary hypertension that causes high blood pressure in the small arteries of the lungs. It is a serious condition that can impair blood flow ...

A recent publication in the International Journal of Cardiology, "Pulmonary artery denervation in pulmonary hypertension: A ...

In pulmonary hypertension, a combination of metabolic and mechanical dysfunction leads to irreversible vascular damage.

The following is a summary of “Right atrial reservoir strain as an early predictor of pulmonary hypertension development in ...

Hypertension does not directly cause dyspnoea; however it can lead to long-term effects on the heart and arteries ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and severe lung disease with a life-threatening prognosis. After several positive trials, a recent study has confirmed the efficacy of a biotherapy, ...

Current drugs available for the treatment of primary arterial hypertension (PAH ... has been associated with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn.

A new molecular imaging technique—18F-FAPI PET—can detect the first signs of tissue remodeling in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), providing physicians with an early marker ...

If you have pulmonary hypertension, it means you have high blood pressure in your pulmonary arteries, the blood vessels that carry blood from the right side of your heart through your lungs.