Complex Patients Benefit from Team Approach
A team-based approach helps improve control of diabetes, coronary heart disease, and depression in the primary care setting by modifying both patient and physician behaviors, researchers found. Compared with usual care, a collaboration between a nurse care manager, physicians, and patients increased initiation of
Preventive Health Care for Women with Pulmonary Hypertension
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Lung Transplants Are Happening Outside the Body Ex vivo lung transplants were performed in New York
In the future, the ex vivo procedure can help restore and repair donor lungs. Currently less than 30 percent of donor lungs can be used.
pulmonary hypertension is an under diagnosed disease, one with an amazing medical story. - USA
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Bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 in patients with idiopathic portal hypertension.
Background. In idiopathic portal hypertension (IPH) typical vascular lesions are present in the branches of the portal vein or in the perisinusoidal area of the liver.
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Resveratrol reverses monocrotaline-induced pulmonary vascular and cardiac dysfunction:
Arterial remodeling contributes to the elevated pulmonary artery (PA) pressures and right ventricular hypertrophy seen in pulmonary hypertension (PH). Resveratrol, a sirtuin-1 (SIRT1) pathway activator, can prevent the development of PH in a commonly used animal model, but it is unclear whether it can reverse established PH pathophysiology.