What is Pulmonary Hypertension?
Each year, millions of patients are diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension after they present with shortness of breath or signs of heart failure.
It’s a devastating, very rapidly evolving disease, characterised by elevated blood pressure in the pulmonary artery that carries blood from the heart, to the lungs.
It has a dramatic impact on prognosis and survival, with a median survival rate of 7 to 9 year following onset diagnosis.
Therapeutic options are limited to 15% of the patients, with the other 85% remaining in a therapeutic dead-end.