Sotatercept shows promise for a type of pulmonary hypertension linked to heart failure with preserved EF

Patients who have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and high blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary ...
Nature

NEURAL REGULATION OF THE PULMONARY CIRCULATION FOLLOWING SYSTEMIC HYPOTENSION IN CONSCIOUS DOGS

To investigate autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation of the pulmonary vascular response to increasing cardiac index (CI:ml/min/kg) following systemic hypotension (H), the pulmonary vascular ...
Drexel University

Development of a Geometrically Tunable Cardiovascular Shunt for Pediatric Heart Reconstruction

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are among the top eight causes of infant mortality worldwide. Annually, CHDs affect around 40,000 infants in the United States, with approximately one in four having a ...
Open Heart

Effects of ACE inhibitor and afterload reduction in single ventricles following bidirectional Glenn

Background Patients with single ventricles after bidirectional Glenn (BDG) are placed on ACE inhibitors (ACEIs) to reduce ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Comparison of Shunt Types in the Norwood Procedure for Single-Ventricle Lesions

The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated with high mortality. The ...
Healio

Recent systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary hypertension patients show better survival

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary hypertension diagnosis in the last 10 years vs. 10 years prior was linked ...