title: [Advances in treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension].
abstract: Clinical guideline for treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has been changing during the past 10 years with development of targeted therapy for PAH. Treatment of PAH should include general measures and supportive care, treatment of associated disease, targeted treatment for PAH, and lung transplantation in advanced cases. Targeted therapy for PAH can improve symptom, quality of life and time to clinical worsening in PAH patients. Regular follow-up to evaluate the treatment efficacy is essential and insufficient treatment efficacy should be modified with other class of medication or preparing lung transplantations. Research for new medication is actively performed and novel drug is expected to be improving survival of PAH patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiac and Vascular Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 135-71, Korea. Email: sunga.chang@samsung.com.
authors.forename: Sung-A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000628:therapy*