In patients with familial PAH, SMAD5 appears to be a novel gene that warrants consideration for genetic testing, according to ...

Eating More Fruits and Vegetables to Reduce Dietary Acid Lowers Blood Pressure and Improves Kidney and Heart ... Disease Apr. 11, 2024 — A drug approved to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

Pulmonary angiography, specifically the computed tomographic version, is the gold standard for diagnosing lung embolism.

Overall, almost 80 per cent of sudden cardiac arrest cases in people over 40 stem from coronary artery disease.

A study reveals heart shape can predict diseases, linking genetics to heart conditions through analysis of 40,000 MRI images.

Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by elevated pulmonary artery pressure and vascular resistance, leading to systemic venous hypertension and potential right heart ...

Records obtained from outside institutions show that she has a history of dextrocardia with situs solitus, atrioventricular (AV) and ventricular arterial discordance with pulmonary atresia ...

The causes of heart valve problems include infections such as rheumatic fever, congenital heart disease ... Another type of abnormality is called pulmonary stenosis. A narrow valve reduces ...

heart failure, aortic stenosis, atrial fibrillation, and abdominal aortic aneurysm. They followed participants through the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, death, or to the end of 2019.

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is associated with endothelial dysfunction. However, the cause of endothelial dysfunction and its impact on PH remain incompletely understood. We aimed to investigate ...