In The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Olivier Sitbon and colleagues1 present the results of a randomised, phase 2b clinical trial (ELEVATE-2) that compared the safety and efficacy of pulmonary arterial ...
BACKGROUND: The European Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension registry (CTEPH), conducted between 2007 and 2012, reported the major impact of pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) on the long-term ...
In addition, prolonged aortic blood supply to the left pulmonary artery may result in increased pulmonary artery resistance and slower pulmonary blood flow, increasing the risk of thrombosis in the ...
The main pathological features of CTD-PAH are thickening of intima, media and adventitia of pulmonary arterioles, increased pulmonary vascular resistance, autoimmune activation and inflammatory ...
What Is a Pulmonary Embolism? A pulmonary embolism (PE) happens when a blood clot suddenly blocks an artery that supplies blood to your lungs. Pulmonary embolism happens when a blood clot travels ...