Imatinib for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

To the Editor: We report on a 61-year-old man with a rapidly progressing form of familial idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Five years earlier, the patient had presented with signs of right-sided heart failure in our pulmonary-hypertension referral center. During the previous year, his con...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2005-09, Vol.353 (13), p.1412-1413
Hauptverfasser:	Ghofrani, Hossein A, Seeger, Werner, Grimminger, Friedrich
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Benzamides Exercise Tolerance - drug effects Humans Hypertension, Pulmonary - drug therapy Hypertension, Pulmonary - physiopathology Imatinib Mesylate Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins - therapeutic use Male Middle Aged Piperazines - therapeutic use Pyrimidines - therapeutic use Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor - antagonists & inhibitors Vascular Resistance - drug effects
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