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SUBMITTER: Gleason JB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4589584 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Gleason James Benjamin JB Dolan Justin J Piran Pirouz P Rahaghi Franck Farzad FF
Case reports in pulmonology 20150917
In patients who require urgent initiation of pulmonary arterial hypertension medications due to disease progression, it is customary to start intravenous prostacyclin therapy, typically during a hospital admission. If there are complicating factors or relative contraindications to intravenous and subcutaneous prostanoids, oral treprostinil provides another pathway to prostanoid therapy, but this usually requires a prolonged titration. We describe the case of a thirty-six-year-old male with sever ...[more]