Article: What Is Pulmonary Hypertension?
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What Is Pulmonary Hypertension?
?Pulmonary? is a word that refers to the lungs. Hypertension is elevated blood pressure. Pulmonary hypertension, according to the PHA (pulmonary hypertension association) refers to a blood vessel disorder in the lungs in which the blood pressure within the blood vessels in the lungs raises to a dangerously high level. According to the PHA, pulmonary hypertension occurs when the blood vessels in the lungs begin to constrict and get smaller, even stiffer, thus making the heart pump harder and harder to try and squeeze the blood through the veins. This pushing creates significantly higher blood pressure within the blood vessels in the lungs.
Two Different Types of Pulmonary Hypertension
There actually two different types of pulmonary hypertension: Primary pulmona...
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