Abstract:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) frequently complicates cardiopulmonary conditions and associates with worse outcomes. Treatment of PH disproportionate to concomitant heart and lung disease remains controversial, although inhaled treprostinil (iTRE) was recently approved for use in group 3 PH due to interstitial lung disease. We evaluated the impact of iTRE treatment on rates of disease progression in patients who fell into a spectrum of World Symposium PH groups.
METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study i… Show more
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