DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 43-year-old woman and the mother of two young children. I have just been told I have pulmonary hypertension. According to my doctors, this has nothing to do with high blood pressure, which I do not have. This confuses me. I am slightly short of breath when I have to climb stairs from our basement to the second floor, but aside from that I feel OK. What is this thing?

 Imagine if every motion, even one as slight as lifting your arms above your head, took your breath away, and exercising felt like someone was choking the air out of you.

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Alisa Bernard tired easily and struggled to breathe, but figured it was because she was pregnant with her fourth child and close to her due date.

 Patient Karl Wagner, age 46 of Macon, Georgia, underwent the Adult Stem Cell therapy in February 2008. Wagner says since being diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, he was on a rapid decline. "I was being managed by medication, but still had violent chest pains, heart palpitations, extreme fatigue, and severe shortness of breath...I could barely do anything with my daughters and was on oxygen almost all the time. Doctors at Mayo Clinic gave me a three year prognosis."

 The purpose of this study was to explore the superior vena cava (SVC) Doppler flow changes in rabbits with acute thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (ATEPAH) and its value in evaluating pulmonary pressure. Methods.The systolic peak flow velocity (SPV), ventricular reverse peak flow velocity (VrPV), diastolic peak flow velocity (DPV), and atrial reverse peak flow velocity (ArPV) of the SVC were

 United Therapeutics has what seems like an embarrassing problem: an oral form of its blood-pressure drug turns out not to have worked as expected, and, in fact, patients might as well use a popular impotence treatment in its stead.

 Shortly after her diagnosis, Mary Beth Schumacher went online to learn all she could about pulmonary hypertension.

The lesson left her gasping.

  Heart failure patients who regularly exercise fare better and feel better about their lives than do similar patients who do not work out on a regular basis, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

PHA Australia advises that you always check with your own doctor before starting any excercise program.

 A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Center for Lung Science and Health demonstrated that thyroid hormone (T3) rapidly facilitates the removal of fluid that can flood the airspaces of the lung.

 Out of every 10 cases, nine are in female patients. Women are commonly diagnosed when they are pregnant, leaving soon-to-be mothers with a choice they can’t imagine facing -- until now.

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