Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs that can lead to heart failure. It is still incurable and there is still a lot of research to do to understand, what causes the disease and hopefully find a way to cure it.
My wife has been diagnosed with PH almost 2 years ago. Thanks to very motivated and engaged doctors she is in a stable state at the moment.
PH is an orphan disease and so it is not much known in public. And even a well educated doctor will not always diagnose PH when a patients tells him that he is gasping for air when just trying to reach the next floor. Everybody can be affected and if PH is not diagnosed in an early state, chances are that you will die within the next 2 or 3 years.
PH needs awareness! November is pulmonary hypertension awareness month.
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Here are links to PH related sites that can give you some more information on PH