Active clinical trials for "Hypertension, Pulmonary"

An expanded access program that provides INOpulse treatment to patients with serious disease or conditions associated with pulmonary hypertension associated with pulmonary fibrosis who are not able to participate in the Sponsor's ongoing Phase 3 REBUILD clinical.

The purpose of this study is to verify the applicability Six minutes walk test and Shuttle walk test in assessing functional capacity in patients with Eisenmenger Syndrome. Patients will undergo three functional tests, being the six-minute walk test, shuttle walk test and cardiopulmonary exercise test on a cycle ergometer, associated with evaluation of metabolic and ventilatory variables and cardiac monitoring throughout the test.

Pulmonary hypertension is a common complication of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It is reported that over half of COPD patients develop pulmonary hypertension. COPD and pulmonary hypertension may have pathological or genetics interactions so that patients having both disorders tend to have poor prognosis. Echocardiography is widely used to detect pulmonary hypertension, but it's not accurate enough. Therefore, high-quality data reflecting the prevalence, disease course and outcome of pulmonary hypertension in COPD is very limited in China. The aim of the study is to detect pulmonary hypertension with right heart catheterization, describe its outcome in Chinese COPD patients and explore the underlying interaction mechanism.

Pulmonary hypertension results in right ventricle dysfunction. Cardiac magnetic resonance derived RV ejection fraction is a prognostic value in this condition. Right ventricular geometry, function, morphology as well as pulmonary arterial stiffness and size may be evaluated by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and could have great importance in evaluation of pulmonary hypertension prognosis and outcomes.

Investigating neural respiratory drive by examining parasternal EMG measurements in patients presenting for assessment of presumed pulmonary hypertension.

The aim of the study is to determine relevant morphologic parameters of the lung vasculature for the differentiation between different groups of patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) by thoracic computer tomography (CT). In this pilot study patients undergoing right heart catheterization will be investigated by thoracic CT and special software to determine morphologic readouts. The investigators expect that using this non-invasive method, parameters relevant for the differentiation of the patients with PH can be determined.

The investigators intend to evaluate the function of left heart and right heart and the motion balance between four chambers of the heart by speckle tracking technique during the follow-up of patients with pulmonary hypertension, and explore the relationship between the balance and prognosis of patients.

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a chronic disease characterized by a progressive increase in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), which leads to right ventricular (RV) failure, and ultimately death. Different studies have outlined how various factors as vascular resistance, functional class, age, correlate with mortality. However, the modality of death and risk factors for mortality in patients with PAH are little known. For this purpose, more studies are necessary to analyze the risk factors related to modality of death in PAH.

With the appearance of the new SARS-COV2 virus, additional challenges are being imposed on the medical community after the resolution of acute COVID-19 illness, resulting in specific pathophysiologic mechanisms that while acutely damage the lung parenchyma might chronically impact the cardiopulmonary system. This study aims to investigate changes after mild COVID-19 illness in echocardiographic indices at rest and stress.

First, the aim of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of echocardiographic parameters for detecting pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with advanced lung disease referred for lung transplantation. Second, to assess the prevalence of PH and to identify which hemodynamic, echocardiographic, pulmonary functional test, exercise capacity and biochemical parameters (especially NT-proBNP) have an impact on survival in a cohort of patients with severe lung diseases referred for lung transplantation.