Aug. 24, 2004 -- B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) may not obviate the need for invasive pulmonary artery pressure monitoring but may predict prognosis, according to the results of a study published in ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Engagement in daily pulmonary artery pressure readings may benefit patients with heart failure. Patients made ...

Winter Haven resident Glenda Johns’ battle with heart failure — marked by increasing weakness and frequent hospital stays — is a textbook case of how the condition can consume patients’ lives. “Every ...

Pulmonary artery pressure monitoring systems use sensors to collect data on pulmonary artery pressure in people with chronic heart failure to allow for ongoing remote monitoring. A pulmonary artery ...

MIAMI BEACH, FLA.—A prospective first-in-man study conducted at a single center in China found that denervation of the pulmonary artery is safe and feasible as a treatment for pulmonary artery ...

Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) is a rare cause of pulmonary hypertension that is characterized histopathologically by intimal proliferation and fibrosis of the pulmonary venules and small ...

M. Patricia George, Enrico M. Novelli, Norihisa Shigemura, Marc A. Simon, Brian Feingold, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, Matthew R. Morrell, Cynthia G. Gries, Syed Haider ...

Pulmonary hypertension can develop slowly and when symptoms do occur, they may be attributed to asthma or other lung or heart conditions. The body will often indicate something is not quite right and ...