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lung disease causing heart failure :: Article Creator Platelets Get Trapped In Lungs In PH Patients With Heart Failure: Study Platelets, or cell fragments in blood that help stop or prevent bleeding, tend to cluster in lung blood vessels of people with decompensated pulmonary hypertension (PH), a lung disease characterized by sudden worsening of clinical signs of right heart failure, followed by other severe complications, a study has found. This clustering, or aggregation, is associated with low platelet counts in these patients, increasing their risk of bleeding. Normally, most platelets travel unimpeded through the tiny blood vessels of the lungs. However, "the vascular, endothelial and immune abnormalities associated with PH may contribute to platelets trapping within lung capillaries [tiny blood vessels]," scientists wrote. The endothelium is a cell layer lining the inner side of blood vessels. The study, "Platelet aggreg...