Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Treatments
The UPMC Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Program offers a full spectrum of treatments, as well as new and better medical therapies, ranging from oral agents to inhaled, subcutaneous (under the skin), and intravenous (vein) therapies.
Our level of expertise in managing the most complex cases means we can:
- facilitate diagnostic testing
- participate in disease treatment
- foster long-term management and co-management of patients with their doctors at home
Lung and heart-lung transplantation
For patients who are not responding to medical therapy, UPMC specialists are there every step of the way with surgical options, such as lung and heart-lung transplantation.
A unique feature of our program is the Heart/Lung Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, which offers effective, high-level evaluation and treatment of people with PH and intrinsic lung disease.
Should patients develop right-ventricular dysfunction, as can occur in the late stages of disease, combined heart-lung transplantation may be the best option. The clinic provides patients ready access to the UPMC Lung and Heart/Lung Transplantation programs, but early referral for future transplantation is recommended.
Striving to improve PH treatments
UPMC Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Program specialists are constantly investigating new ways to enhance our program with promising therapies that may help individualize future treatments for people with PH.
The program also is researching new technologies to evaluate right-heart function, and new strategies to identify and eliminate factors which delay successful treatment in patients at risk for PH, such as:
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