Gilead recently presented the results of AMBITION, their largest PAH study. This study compared the long term outcomes of pulmonary arterial hypertension patients who had been recently diagnosed and were randomized to either Tadalafil (Adcirca), Ambrisentan (Letairis) or the combination of the two. … [Read more...]
I Was Misdiagnosed With PAH
We look forward to and read every email readers send us through our contact form. We find the questions and comments submitted to be very valuable and try to respond to each contact. We recently had a reader submit a great question and have written this blog to answer it. … [Read more...]
Pregnancy and Pulmonary Hypertension Part 1
There are many challenges in caring for patients with PAH. We ask our patients to take many different medications to help treat their disease process and we ask them to put up with side effects from these medications. We ask our patients to change their lifestyles and eating habits. One of the greatest challenges is the issue of pregnancy. … [Read more...]
PH Centers of Excellence
A large majority of the comments/questions we receive from our readers are requests for recommendations for a PAH expert close to home. This is a very important question that is very difficult to answer. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare disease, community physicians may not know of any PH specialists in their area. … [Read more...]
