Identification of pulmonary arterial hypertension patients with venous or capillary involvement
Adam M Andruska, Alejandro Cruz-Utrilla, Esther J Nossent, Lucas R Celant, Issac Yiqun Yang, Raquel Lyn, Yu Kuang (Julie) Lai, Kristina Kudelko, Yon Sung, Edda Spiekerkoetter, Vinicio De Jesus Perez, Henry Haiwei Guo, Harm Jan Bogaard, Pilar Escribano-Subias, Roham T Zamanian, Andrew J Sweatt · 2026
Read Identification of pulmonary arterial hypertension patients with venous or capillary involvement by Adam M Andruska, Alejandro Cruz-Utrilla, Esther J Nossent, Lucas R Celant, Issac Yiqun Yang, Raquel Lyn, Yu Kuang (Julie) Lai, Kristina Kudelko, Yon Sung, Edda Spiekerkoetter, Vinicio De Jesus Perez, Henry Haiwei Guo, Harm Jan Bogaard, Pilar Escribano-Subias, Roham T Zamanian, Andrew J Sweatt (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13519332.txt.
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Adam Andruska and co-authors present a study dated 2026 on spotting a dangerous subtype of pulmonary arterial hypertension. In this subtype, the tiny veins and capillaries of the lung are involved, not just the arteries. Standard drugs can trigger serious complications in these patients, and many die while waiting for a lung transplant.
No registry tracks this rare group, so the team pooled data from published case studies. They tested which clinical traits best separate the subtype from ordinary disease. The strongest traits were combined into a likelihood score. That score was then checked against thirty-seven cases confirmed by tissue examination. An early, accurate flag could change drug choices and speed transplant referral.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Adam M Andruska, Alejandro Cruz-Utrilla, Esther J Nossent, Lucas R Celant, Issac Yiqun Yang, Raquel Lyn, Yu Kuang (Julie) Lai, Kristina Kudelko, Yon Sung, Edda Spiekerkoetter, Vinicio De Jesus Perez, Henry Haiwei Guo, Harm Jan Bogaard, Pilar Escribano-Subias, Roham T Zamanian, Andrew J Sweatt |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |