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SUBMITTER: Spiekerkoetter E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7735523 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spiekerkoetter Edda E Kawut Steven M SM de Jesus Perez Vinicio A VA
Annual review of medicine 20180914
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a pulmonary vasculopathy that causes right ventricular dysfunction and exercise limitation and progresses to death. New findings from translational studies have suggested alternative pathways for treatment. These avenues include sex hormones, genetic abnormalities and DNA damage, elastase inhibition, metabolic dysfunction, cellular therapies, and anti-inflammatory approaches. Both novel and repurposed compounds with rationale from preclinical experimental ...[more]