Latest therapeutic novelties and patents in pulmonary hypertension

Recent Pat Cardiovasc Drug Discov. 2011 Jan;6(1):55-60. doi: 10.2174/157489011794578491.

Abstract

Recent advances in technology and novel pharmaceutical research findings have added new grounds in the fields of medical treatment and quality of life of patients diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Collective assessment of new data is mandatory and useful for specialist medical doctors. This review aims to present the latest therapeutic developments of the last two years (2009-2010) in PAH. Moreover, recent patents (of the year 2010) regarding therapeutic novelties in PAH that expand treatment modalities, are hereby presented.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antihypertensive Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Blood Pressure / drug effects
  • Drugs, Investigational / therapeutic use*
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / drug therapy*
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / mortality
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology
  • Patents as Topic
  • Quality of Life
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antihypertensive Agents
  • Drugs, Investigational