Pulmonary Vascular Disease News

Patients with pulmonary hypertension who underwent kidney transplantation had similar posttransplant outcomes at 5 years compared with those without pretransplant pulmonary hypertension, researchers reported in Pulmonary Circulation.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in March.

Differential treatment response may not explain the survival benefit seen in some patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and obesity, researchers reported in Chest.

Musculoskeletal pain is common in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and significantly affects quality of life and physical function, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

Hispanic ethnicity was not associated with survival differences in pulmonary arterial hypertension despite a “disadvantageous social determinants of health profile,” researchers reported in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Cytokine profiles can distinguish patients with systemic sclerosis who are at high risk for, or have, pulmonary arterial hypertension from those with low risk and healthy controls, according to data published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

The European Respiratory Society published an advocacy statement on International Women’s Day calling for greater awareness and focus on the increase in respiratory diseases in women.

Right atrial pressure estimated by a portable hand-held ultrasound corresponded with B-type natriuretic peptide and was an independent predictor of clinical worsening in patients with pulmonary hypertension, researchers reported.

In children with pulmonary arterial hypertension, early initiation of IV or subcutaneous parenteral prostanoid therapy, higher doses of therapy and when combined with additional PAH therapy were associated with favorable outcomes.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in February.