The most accurate way to diagnose pulmonary hypertension is using a pressure measurement called right-heart catheterisation. However, this is invasive and can cause complications. Another technique, ...

Context Right heart catheterisation is the gold standard for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension. However, echocardiography is frequently used to screen for this disease and monitor progression ...

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the correlation and concordance of pulmonary artery systolic pressure values measured via right heart catheterization and estimated via transthoracic echocardiography ...

To assess how a patient with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is faring on therapy, look at the right heart, said Anjali Vaidya, MD, in a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American ...

Targeting Fibroblast Activation Protein for Molecular Imaging of Fibrotic Remodeling in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2025; 66 (1): 98 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.124.268376 ...

As you’re getting tests to track your pulmonary arterial hypertension, keep going to all your follow-up appointments, and be sure to tell your doctor how you’re feeling.

Merck ’s $11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron Pharma paid dividends Tuesday as the FDA approved sotatercept, the cornerstone of the deal, to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension. The drug, which ...

PH is rare; access to pulmonary rehab shouldn’t be Noninvasive echocardiography is among initial diagnostic PH tests “The study … is timely, clinically relevant, and innovative in its application of ...

Objectives: (1) to derive reference equations for MPA and right pulmonary artery (RPA) size on echocardiography that consider the effect of body size, age and sex; (2) to determine which measure of PA ...

Pulmonary hypertension can be difficult to diagnose, since its symptoms often resemble those of other conditions, and it can’t be detected in a routine physical exam alone. Your doctor will ...

The study included 396 consecutive patients were referred to the Pulmonary Hypertension Unit of Monaldi Hospital in Naples, Italy, from January 1, 2018, through December 31, 2019, for suspected PH.