Adult Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Safety and Efficacy of a Novel Atrial Flow Regulator in Patients With Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: The AFR-Prophet Study

Jozef Bartunek, Emiliano Fiori, Grzegorz Kopec, Teoman Kilic, Joseph Pattathu, Nikolaus A. HaasAZORG, Sapienza University. University Medical College and John Paul II Hospital in Krakow. Kocaeli University. Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.Belgium, Italy, Poland, Turkey and Germany Journal of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and InterventionsJ Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv 2026; DOI: 10.1016/j.jscai.2026.104390 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a […]

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Refining the Definition for “Low Risk” in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Time to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality

Charles Fauvel, Priscilla Correa Jaque, Yongqi Liu, Sang Wan Lee, Sandeep Sahay, Nelson A. Villasmil Hernandez, Jason Weatherald, James White, Allen Everett, Megan Griffith, Thomas M. Cascino, Adam Perer, Katelyn Morrison, Michael Lewis, Yuri Matusov, Shili Lin, Raymond L. BenzaRouen University Hospital and French National Institute for Health and Medical Research. Eastern Virginia Medical School,

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The Role of the Cellular Communication Network Protein Family in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Carly E. Byrd, Jennifer E. Schramm, Jun Yang, Allan E. Barnes, Megan Griffiths, William C. Nichols, David D. Ivy, Eric D. Austin, Allen D. EverettJohns Hopkins University. University of Texas Southwestern. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Children’s Hospital Colorado. Vanderbilt University Medical Center. United States Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ

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Lactobacillus Is Associated With Disease in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Prospective Cohort Study

Arun Jose, Senu Apewokin, Nicholas J. Ollberding, Qing Duan, Jennifer Trannguyen, Sasha Z. Prisco, Thenappan Thenappan, Anna R. Hemnes, Jean M. ElwinUniversity of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. University of Minnesota. Vanderbilt University.United States Comprehensive PhysiologyComp Physiol 2026; 16: DOI: 10.1002/cph4.70161 AbstractBackground: Gut dysbiosis and gut-derived metabolites have been linked to pulmonary arterial hypertension. However,

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Metabolomics of Right Ventricular Function in Pulmonary Hypertension

Jonathan Chacon-Barahona, Samuel J Chung, Jonah D Garry, Robert Frantz, Franz Rischard, Paul M Hassoun, Stephen C Mathai, Catherine E Simpson, Gerald Beck, Nicholas S Hill, Jane A Leopold, Aaron B Waxman, Erika B Rosenzweig, Barry A Borlaug, Monica Mukherjee, Rebecca Vanderpool, Miriam Jacob, Reena Mehra, Margaret M Park, J Emanuel Finet, Samar Farha, Gabriele Grunig, Deborah Kwon, Suzy Comhair, Serpil Erzurum, John Barnard, Bo Hu, Christine L Jellis, Alexandra Christin Racanelli, Jan Krumsiek, Evan L Brittain, Anna Hemnes, Evelyn Horn; PVDOMICS Study GroupWeill Cornell Medical College. Albert

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Transcatheter closure of anomalous systemic arterial supply to the left lung from the left subclavian artery: Diagnostic and procedural challenges

Anil Kumar Singhi, Manojit Lodha, Santunu De, Arpita Choraria, Sandip Sardar, Ejaz Ahmed Bari, Debadri ChakrabartiManipal Hospital EM Bypass. Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences. India Journal of Cardiology CasesJ Cardiol Cases 2025 Aug 5; 32: 207-210DOI: 10.1016/j.jccase.2025.07.007 AbstractA 26-year-old woman with chronic effort intolerance and a continuous murmur underwent evaluation for suspected congenital heart disease. While

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Protocol for an open-label, randomised, controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of sotatercept add-on therapy compared with pulmonary vasodilator-based standard of care for pulmonary vasodilator-resistant pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with unrepaired congenital shunts (atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect or patent ductus arteriosus), including Eisenmenger syndrome: the SuMILE trial

Keimei Yoshida, Kazuya Hosokawa, Takahiro Hiraide, Satoshi Akagi, Kentaro Ejiri, Yu Taniguchi, Shiro Adachi, Takumi Inami, Naohiko Nakanishi, Masaharu Kataoka, Taijyu Satoh, Shunsuke Tatebe, Toshiro Shinke, Hideshi Tomita, Yusuke Akazawa, Takashi Higaki, Koshiro Tagawa, Ayako Ishikita, Soshun Asakawa, Kohtaro AbeKyushu University and Kyushu University Hospital. Keio University School of Medicine. Okayama University. Kobe University Hospital.

Protocol for an open-label, randomised, controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of sotatercept add-on therapy compared with pulmonary vasodilator-based standard of care for pulmonary vasodilator-resistant pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with unrepaired congenital shunts (atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect or patent ductus arteriosus), including Eisenmenger syndrome: the SuMILE trial Read More »

Sotatercept in Patients With Eisenmenger Syndrome

Oktay Tutarel, Oliver Miera, Felix BergerDeutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.Germany Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ 2026; 16: DOI: 10.1002/pul2.70283 AbstractEisenmenger syndrome represents a complex and severe form of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with congenital heart disease. Sotatercept, a first-in-class activin-signaling inhibitor, offers a novel therapeutic approach in the treatment of PAH,

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Effects of altitude and exercise on pulmonary capillary integrity: evidence for subclinical high-altitude pulmonary edema

Marlowe W. Eldridge, Ruedi K. Braun, Ken Y. Yoneda, William F. WalbyUniversity of Wisconsin.United States Journal of Applied PhysiologyJ Appl Physiol 2006; 100: 972-980 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01048.2005 AbstractStrenuous exercise may be a significant contributing factor for development of high-altitude pulmonary edema, particularly at low or moderate altitudes. Thus we investigated the effects of heavy cycle ergometer exercise (90%

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Biomarkers of hypoxia, endothelial and circulatory dysfunction among climbers in Nepal with AMS and HAPE: a prospective case-control study

Kevin R. Barker, Andrea L. Conroy, Michael Hawkes, Holly Murphy, Prativa Pandey, Kevin C. KainUniversity of Toronto and University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital. University of Alberta. CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Center. Canada and Nepal Journal of Travel MedicineJ Travel Med 2016; 23: DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taw005 AbstractBackground: The mechanisms underlying acute mountain sickness (AMS) and high-altitude pulmonary edema

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