Resources
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Web sites

American Lung Association
The American Lung Association’s Web site helps you to learn more about your lungs and lung disease, and encourages you to get involved by listing special events taking place in your area and suggesting ways you can influence lung legislation. The site also provides information on air quality both in and outside of the home.

Emedicine.com
A free service of WebMD, Emedicine.com also offers information on human diseases and their treatments.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The NHLBI Web site contains expert information about heart, lung, and blood diseases, and features links to National Institutes of Health clinical trials of investigational therapies that may become tomorrow's mainline treatments.

Pulmonary Hypertension Association
In addition to providing a Web site with information about PAH, the Pulmonary Hypertension Association provides more than 100 patient support groups, a hotline, public awareness programs, written materials, an educational conference, a medical journal devoted to pulmonary hypertension, and funding for research.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia, a free Web encyclopedia, is a mixed bag that much be approached with caution: The articles are written and edited by the encyclopedia's readers, and so can have an uneven quality. But their article on pulmonary hypertension is excellent.

Physician-level articles on PAH

More detailed information about PAH can be obtained from the following scholarly articles.

Levine, D., “Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Implications for Respiratory Care,” Respiratory Care, April 2006, pp. 368-381.

Murali, S., "Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension," US Respiratory Care 2005, February 2005, pp. 67-71.
An excellent physician-level article about PAH.

Chaouat, A., et al., "Severe Pulmonary Hypertension and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease," American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2005, vol. 172 #2, pp. 189-194.
Discusses PAH caused by COPD.


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