Congestive Heart Failure: Life Expectancy and Prognosis
pulmonary hypertension signs symptoms :: Article Creator Unique Cell-based Approach For Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Shown To Be Safe Infusions of potentially therapeutic cells derived from the heart are safe for people with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a form of high blood pressure that occurs in the blood vessels of the lungs and typically affects middle-aged women, according to a study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators. The Phase I clinical trial results are published in the peer-reviewed journal eBioMedicine, a Lancet journal. "Although several drugs are approved for pulmonary arterial hypertension, mortality remains high," said Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, executive director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, the Mark S. Siegel Family Foundation Distinguished Professor and senior author of the study. "We tried a fundamentally different approach -- cell therapy delivered into the pulmonary artery -- and found encou...