2007-02-12 14:09:23 · 7 answers · asked by owned by a siberian husky 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
I am somewhat familiar with it. Here are a couple of good sources of information concerning pulmonary hypertension. Hope you find them helpful. The discussion of pulmonary hypertension is much too extensive for this forum. Good Luck!
Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA)
801 Roeder Rd., Suite 400
Silver Spring, MD 20910
PPH Cure Foundation
1826 R Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009-1604
(202) 518-5477
2007-02-12 16:13:16 · answer #1 · answered by Barry M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, formally known as Primary pulmonary hypertension. Did you have a specific question?
2007-02-15 08:35:04 · answer #2 · answered by Stephanie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is hard to answer completely without knowing all of the facts, but I will just give you some information that could be helpful: No, you can't sue the hospital and it does not seem that they were negligent. When someone comes into an ER they are coming in basically to be treated and released for whatever is an emergency right now; emergency rooms are not there to provide continuing care -- that is your doctor's job. When a patient comes in with chest pains the ER physicians are going to check to see if he is having a heart attack or if there is some other emergency that needs taking care of right away. I would not say that the echo was completely "normal", since it did show problems but it did not show anything that was an emergency or that was necessarily unusual for someone in the patient's age and condition. I don't live in the US so I don't know what you got when you left the hospital, but here where I live whenever someone goes to the hospital they are sent home with a "release paper" that shows all of the information from anamnesis and all information from blood tests and other test results, etc. and the patient takes this sheet to their doctor for follow-up care. Their doctor is then supposed to decide what care is necessary according to the information in front of him. It seems that the ER DID release the findings, as I assume that the patient's current cardiologist had to find out what the results were somehow, didn't he? The cardiologist does not sound as if he is trying to exploit anything, as the patient needs follow-up care if these test results are accurate. If a test is three years old, of course the cardiologist would have to repeat it to see what changes there have been if any! Hope this helps explain things somewhat.
2016-05-24 03:41:47 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, the human body has 2 seperate blood circulation systems, one for the body, and one for the lungs. When the blood pressure gets too high in the lungs, pulmonary hypertension occurs. This causes a few different problems, mostly related to impaired gas exchange at the alveolar level, simply put, the lungs cannot absorb enough oxygen. Is this what you have going on? I see in your other thread you got supplemental oxygen, that will go along ways in protecting your organs like your heart and kidneys.........Best of luck, if you need anything else, please let me know.
2007-02-13 14:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by Wonderingwhy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name may lead you to believe it's in the lungs, but it's not. It's hypertension (high pressure) in the pulmonary artery.
There is a lot more to it, but thought that explaining the name would be a start.
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2007-02-12 16:08:29 · answer #5 · answered by Eric E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I had it for years. What do you kneed to know? Email me and I will respond right back.
2007-02-12 14:14:00 · answer #6 · answered by glenda576 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes what do you need to know?
2007-02-12 14:12:56 · answer #7 · answered by MOM OF ONE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋