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Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) is a rare form of pulmonary hypertension (PH). The prognosis of PVOD patients remains poor, since no effective medical therapy is yet available. Imatinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor specific for platelet-derived growth factor receptor and is expected as a
BACKGROUND
Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) was a standard therapy in chronic phase (CP) chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). As a result of the effective therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), HCT was shifted to defined clinical situations. We present the results of
Tumoral pulmonary hypertension (PH) comprises a variety of subtypes in patients with a current or previous malignancy. Tumoral PH principally includes the tumour-related pulmonary microvascular conditions pulmonary tumour microembolism and pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy. These
BACKGROUND
While pulmonary arterial hypertension remains an uncommon diagnosis, various therapeutic agents are recognized as important associations. These agents are typically categorized into "definite", "likely", "possible", or "unlikely" to cause pulmonary arterial hypertension, based on the
Sorafenib is an inhibitor of multi-kinases including tyrosine and serine/threonine kinases. We investigated the efficacy and safety of sorafenib for the treatment of patients with refractory pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Sorafenib was started in 9 patients (7 with idiopathic PAH, 2 with