Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is a rare disease affecting lung and heart. An increase in pulmonary artery pressure is caused due to the narrowing of the pulmonary blood vessels leading to restriction of pulmonary circulation, lesser gas exchange in the lungs and higher strain on the right ventricle concluding in the failure of the right […]
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Drugs Associated With Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH) is a rare disease that has no known cure or known cause. While there is no known cause of the disease, there are a few medications that are associated with the disease. They are associated but are not a known cause because no one is quite sure how they trigger primary […]
Causes and Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension
Primary pulmonary hypertension, or PPH, is a serious medical condition and has received a lot of media attention in recent years due to its association with popular diet drugs. While doctors have discovered that drugs such as Fen-Phen can lead to PPH, there are additional causes of this and other types of pulmonary hypertension. Much […]
What is Hypertension?
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, better known as PPH, is considered to be a very rare kind of disease that is diagnosed only to patients who are suffering from hypertension with no obvious cause. PPH is not a very common medical condition, and there are approximately less than 500 new patients that are diagnosed every year. Thus, […]
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension and the Diet Pill Connection
PPH (Primary Pulmonary Hypertension) is unfortunately reaching epidemic proportions in this country. A once rare problem is becoming much more prevalent. (Higher pulmonary artery blood pressure causes the heart to work a lot harder to pump sufficient quantities of blood into the lungs. The heart becomes weaker and weaker over time and eventually may fail.) […]