Long-Term Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated with Massive Pulmonary Artery Dilation | Zendy

Vanja Petrović | Zendy; Christopher J. Ryerson | Zendy; Robert D. Levy | Zendy

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Long-Term Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated with Massive Pulmonary Artery Dilation

Author(s) -

Vanja Petrović,

Christopher J. Ryerson,

Robert D. Levy

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

canadian respiratory journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.675

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 1916-7245

pISSN - 1198-2241

DOI - 10.1155/2011/710489

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , dilation (metric space) , pulmonary artery , pulmonary hypertension , mathematics , combinatorics

The present report describes two patients with long-term survival after being diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension more than 20 years earlier. Both patients were treated with calcium channel blockers for several years and are currently maintained on bosentan, an oral endothelin receptor antagonist. Severe dilation of the main pulmonary arteries is present in both patients and may be related to long-term survival with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.

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