S L E is a chronic multisystem autoimmune disease in which cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality, with a ...

Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Centre ... For comparison, eight controls and 11 patients who died of chronic pulmonary hypertension (PHT) were used. Slides of the left and right ...

ET indicates endothelin; ETA, endothelin type A; IP, prostaglandin I2; NO, nitric oxide; PAH, pulmonary arterial hypertension; PDE-5, phosphodiesterase type 5; and sGC, soluble guanylate cyclase.

Objective Whether splenectomy increases the risk of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) remains unclear. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the association ...

4 University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany Until recently, three classes of medical therapy were available for the ...

The 2023 European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) hypertension guidelines both emphasize proper blood pressure (BP) ...

A 27-year-old woman had had hypertension during her first pregnancy. She had received a diagnosis of preeclampsia in the third trimester.… Each interactive case presents an evolving patient ...

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

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary fibrosis (also called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF) are both serious lifelong diseases that make it hard for you to breathe.