New therapeutic paradigms and guidelines in the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension

NS Hill, MJ Cawley, CL Heggen-Peay - Journal of managed care & …, 2016 - jmcp.org
BACKGROUND: Recent and ongoing developments in the diagnosis, treatment, and
management of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) provide deeper insights into …

Patient-specific computational modeling of blood flow in the pulmonary arterial circulation

VO Kheyfets, L Rios, T Smith, T Schroeder… - Computer methods and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of the pulmonary vasculature has the
potential to reveal continuum metrics associated with the hemodynamic stress acting on the …

Morbidity, mortality, and organ damage in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome

EP Grika, PD Ziakas, E Zintzaras… - The Journal of …, 2012 - jrheum.org
Objective. To describe morbidity, organ damage, mortality, and cause of death in patients
with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Methods. Descriptive analysis of 135 patients …

Pulmonary hypertension: diagnosis and treatment

B Dunlap, G Weyer - American family physician, 2016 - aafp.org
Pulmonary hypertension is a common, complex group of disorders that result from different
pathophysiologic mechanisms but are all defined by a mean pulmonary arterial pressure of …

Transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension: improvement in the lung allocation score era

JM Schaffer, SK Singh, DL Joyce, BA Reitz… - Circulation, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Lung transplantation and heart-lung transplantation represent surgical
options for treatment of medically refractory idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. The …

Derivation of mean pulmonary artery pressure from noninvasive parameters

RC Steckelberg, AS Tseng, R Nishimura… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The assessment of pulmonary pressure is important for the diagnosis and
management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Mean pulmonary artery pressure …

Pharmacotherapy of lung transplantation: an overview

ML Thompson, JD Flynn… - Journal of Pharmacy …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Lung transplantation has become a viable treatment therapy for end-stage lung disease
patients. The most common etiologies of end-stage lung disease, which can require a …

Vasodilation effect of volatile oil from Allium macrostemon Bunge are mediated by PKA/NO pathway and its constituent dimethyl disulfide in isolated rat pulmonary …

C Han, J Qi, S Gao, C Li, Y Ma, J Wang, Y Bai, X Zheng - Fitoterapia, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study aimed to investigate the vasodilation effects of Allium macrostemon
Bunge (AMB) on isolated rat pulmonary arterials (PAs) and to assess the underling …

Factors associated with adherence to phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension

A Waxman, SY Chen, L Boulanger… - Journal of Medical …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: To assess factors associated with adherence to phosphodiesterase type 5
inhibitors (PDE5Is) in the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Methods …

Biventricular tissue tracking demonstrating associations between left ventricular myocardial extracellular volume, pulmonary artery pressure, and reduced right …

R Wu, RY Shi, DAL An, BH Chen, M Jiang, A Bacyinski… - Clinical radiology, 2020 - Elsevier
AIM To investigate the feasibility and prognostic value of biventricular strain analysis for
patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and relationship to left ventricular (LV) …