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, ...

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

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Renal artery stenosis is the narrowing of one or both blood vessels to the kidneys. The renal arteries bring blood from the heart to the kidneys to help filter ...

An EKG can give an estimate (ePASP is the estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure), but this may not correlate well to an actual measured pressure. This can be definitively obtained by measuring ...

Dear K.T.: Dexfenfluramine, aka Redux (also called "fen-phen" in combination with phentermine), was sold in the 1990s until it was removed from the market in 1997 after valvular heart damage and ...

The investigator-led study enrolled 50 patients undergoing routine right heart catheterization (RHC), with CPS successfully measuring mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) in 40 subjects. CPS ...

The investigator-led study enrolled 50 patients undergoing routine right heart catheterization (RHC), with CPS successfully measuring mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) in 40 subjects.

Finally, being able to measure key physiological parameters such as pulmonary blood flow and ventricular volumes during cardiac catheterization is often important, but difficult under x-ray guidance.

During an ablation, a cardiac electrophysiologist snakes a catheter through a vein or artery, usually in the ... to where Wright's AFib was in the pulmonary veins. The radio frequency, though ...