Risk stratification in heart failure (HF) among patients and healthy subjects using pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) is important for understanding when and why HF develops. The aim of the ...

Parker et al. 4 reported immediate changes in the respective pressures in 21 patients during mitral commissurotomy — usually an immediate drop. The percentage reduction was higher for the pressure in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adjusting pulmonary hemodynamics for esophageal pressure in patients with obesity and high pulmonary artery ...

CHEST discomfort associated with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea is frequently quite distressing, and some patients describe this discomfort as pain. 1 During the past several years, we have noted in the ...

For patients with newly diagnosed pulmonary arterial hypertension, the combination of macitentan (Opsumit, Actelion Pharmaceuticals) plus tadalafil (Adcirca, Eli Lilly) improves hemodynamics, function ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New data expand the range of pulmonary vascular resistance associated with mortality and heart failure in ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease in which the progressive narrowing of the lumen of pulmonary arteries leads to a rise in pulmonary arterial pressure and pulmonary vascular ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a heterogeneous clinical condition. Due to its hemodynamic features and pathophysiological mechanisms, it is categorized as a form of precapillary pulmonary ...

Study achieves primary sensitivity endpoint, advancing diagnostics for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and pulmonary hypertension (PH) Results build on data previously presented ...