Pulmonary hypertension : the present and future [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2014).

The spectrum of pulmonary vascular diseases : "the sick lung circulation" / Norbert F. Voelkel -- Mechanisms of lung vascular remodeling : vasoconstriction and inflammation / Norbert F. Voelkel -- Channels and transporters / Steven L. Archer -- Reconciling matrix remodeling and vasoconstriction in pulmonary hypertension / Peter Lloyd Jones -- The immune response of pulmonary vascular diseases / Mark R. Nicolls -- The pathobiology of the complex vascular lesions in severe PH : angiogenesis/cancer / Norbert F. Voelkel & Carlyne Cool -- Veno occlusive disease / Marc Humbert -- Left heart related pulmonary venous hypertension / Julio Sandoval -- Pulmonary hypertension and interstitial lung disease / Martin Kolb and Laszlo Farkas -- Animal models of pulmonary hypertension / Norbert F. Voelkel -- Right ventricular reserve and failure in PH / Harm J. Bogaard -- Genetics of severe pulmonary hypertension / Nick Morrell -- Pulmonary hypertension in children / Dietmar Schrantz -- Modifiers of severe PH -estrogen, thyroid, metabolic syndrome / Lori Sweeney -- Early diagnosis of PH-exercise testing / Ross Arena & Daniel Grinnan -- Treatment strategies for severe PH : the present and future / Gerald Simmoneau -- Inhaled drugs for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension- challenges and benefits /Peter Byron -- Biomarkers, outcome analysis and registries / R. Paul Fairman -- On the pathobiology and treatment of cancer in pulmonary arterial -- Hypertension / Roland Mertelsmann & Ralph Wasch.