A passive leg raise is equally as effective as exercise in measuring pulmonary vascular distensibility, a physiological marker to predict outcomes in people with pulmonary hypertension (PH), ...

I’ll never forget the day I knew something was wrong with my body. It was sending me warnings. The symptoms included increased shortness of breath from minor activities like talking, presyncope, which is ...

Identification of mutations in the ATP13A3 gene, which are associated with a severe form of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), led doctors to select a riskier treatment approach for...

A calcium channel called TRPC6 may offer a new target for the development of treatments for pulmonary hypertension (PH), including pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a mouse study s...

Among people selected for kidney transplant, the presence of pre-transplant pulmonary hypertension (PH) is associated with an increased risk of transplanted kidney dysfunction at five yea...

Living with the physical health challenges that pulmonary hypertension (PH) places on a patient is hard enough, but the disease can also wreak havoc on mental wellness. There really is n...

Plasma volume status (PVS) — an indirect, non-invasive measure of heart congestion — is a predictor of short-term hospital stays and mortality outcomes in people with multiple types of pulmona...

Researchers in the U.K. will evaluate whether the levels of NT-proBNP — a heart damage biomarker that serves as a prognostic marker of pulmonary hypertension (PH) — can be accurately mea...

Measuring levels of protein sLR11 in the blood could be useful in testing for pulmonary hypertension (PH) in people who have heart failure, according to a new study. The study, "Circu...

When I walk my dog around my new neighborhood carrying my oxygen, my neighbors seem to look at me like I'm an alien. Many stare and gawk, as if they're speculating about what my invisible ill...

High blood levels of NT-proBNP — a validated and widely accepted prognostic marker of pulmonary hypertension (PH) — may serve as a biomarker to diagnose PH among people with chronic obstru...

The use of imaging to evaluate the right side of the heart could be useful for non-invasively diagnosing and monitoring pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in people with connective t...

Gene activity analysis of whole blood collected from people with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) identified three patient subgroups associated with distinct clinical features and ou...

Increased lung arterial obstruction is significantly associated with greater airflow obstruction in people with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) and without a smoking...

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Ever since I was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH) in 2017, I have hated this time of year. I refuse to make any resolutions, and I usually take some time away from social media to avoid looking at everyone els...

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Following years of slow decline due to pulmonary hypertension (PH), by 2014, my son Cullen was in critical health, and our hopes were fading. Thankfully, a heart and double-lung transplant s...

The levels of Piezo1, an ion channel that senses membrane tension in cells, was found to be increased in the lung blood vessels of patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (P...