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In medicine, pulmonary hypertension (PH) or pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH) is an increase in blood pressure in the pulmonary artery or lung vasculature. Depending on the cause, it can be a severe disease with a markedly decreased exercise tolerance and right-sided heart failure. 
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A vasodilator is a substance that causes blood vessels in the body to become wider by relaxing the smooth muscle in the vessel wall, or vasodilation. This will reduce blood pressure (since there is more room for the blood) and might allow blood to flow around a clot. Several vasodilators are used as drugs.
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Pulmonary Hypertension as related to Vasodilators
- Pulmonary Hypertension: Lung and Airway Disorders: Merck Manual Home ...
For most people with primary pulmonary hypertension, vasodilators, such as prostacyclin, drastically reduce blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries.
- Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment: PAH, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension ...
Pulmonary Hypertension Treatments. Comprehensive guide to PPH drug and innovative treatments ... More on Treatments: - Vasodilators Generally - Inhaled nitric oxide - Sildenafil and Revatio
- Pulmonary hypertension: Treatment - MayoClinic.com
One of the most commonly prescribed vasodilators for pulmonary hypertension is epoprostenol (Flolan). The drawback to epoprostenol is that its effects last only a few minutes.
- Pulmonary Hypertension
... a type of endothelin receptor antagonist, is approved for use in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension. Prostacyclins . Medications that both dilate blood vessels (vasodilators ...
- Pulmonary Hypertension in Pregnancy: Treatment With Pulmonary ...
Pulmonary Hypertension in Pregnancy: Treatment With Pulmonary Vasodilators THOMAS R. EASTERLING, MD , DAVID D. RALPH, MD and BARBARA C. SCHMUCKER, RN
- Medications for Pulmonary Hypertension - PPH News
Medications for Pulmonary Hypertension that are classified as vasodilators include Flolan, Remodulin and Tracleer. Two of these medications for Pulmonary Hypertension—Flolan and ...
- Therapy of Pulmonary Hypertension: The Evolution from Vasodilators to ...
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Vol 166. pp. 1308-1309, (2002) © 2002 American Thoracic Society
- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pulmonary Hypertension Beyond ...
Chest. 2005;128:e1S-e2S.) © 2005 American College of Chest Physicians Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pulmonary Hypertension Beyond Vasodilators
- eMedicine - Pulmonary Hypertension : Article by Davinder Jassal
Although vasodilator therapy may decrease pulmonary vasculature resistance, few studies show long-term clinical improvement in patients with pulmonary hypertension. Vasodilators ...
- Pulmonary hypertension: treatment of high pulmonary vascular ...
Four differently acting vasodilators have had recent success in the treatment of severe pulmonary hypertension: Prostacyclin analogues. Administration of epoprostenol ...
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