Every patient I have met in our pulmonary hypertension clinic has one thing in common; their journey to diagnosis and treatment for their pulmonary arterial hypertension has been long and frustrating. The average time from symptom onset to diagnosis is two and a half years! … [Read more...]
Who’s Who at your Pulmonary Hypertension Center
The first visit at a PH center can be very overwhelming. Many patients receive the news that they have a serious life threatening disease they have never heard of and are presented with treatment options including drugs they don’t know anything about. Many times the patient will be introduced to a team of people that will be helping to provide care for them going forward. It … [Read more...]
Second Opinions
I can’t tell you how frequently my patients ask if their doctor will be offended if the patient goes to a different physician for a second opinion or how many times a patient comes to see us for a second opinion. Sometimes they have family members that are scared and don’t want to believe they could really have PAH and they find a physician in their neck of the woods that they … [Read more...]
