title: Medical & surgical approaches to pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: When no other explanation for pulmonary hypertension can be found, it is referred to as primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). Causes of pulmonary hypertension, with a special focus on PPH, as well as recent advances in both its medical and surgical treatment of pulmonary hypertension are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Rush Heart Institute Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rich
mesh_terms: D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D011464:Epoprostenol / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers; D011464:Epoprostenol