Including the patient voice into pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) risk assessment evaluation, a symposium organised by MSD at the ERS Annual Congress, Amsterdam, September 29, 2025

Traditional risk models for pulmonary arterials hypertension rely heavily on objective measures. While essential, they often miss the patient’s lived experience—symptoms, quality-of-life challenges, and life-context factors that shape treatment decisions. At the symposium organised on 29 September 2025 by MSD at the European Respiratory Society Annual Congress in Amsterdam, on the topic of “The Value […]

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Patient empowerment and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) highlighted at the “World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension Updates” conference, Bologna, July 3-5, 2025

Pisana Ferrari, Secretary General of the Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension and President of the Italian Pulmonary Hypertension Association AIPI, was invited to deliver the opening presentation on patient perspectives and empowerment at the “World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension Updates” conference in Bologna on July 3-5, 2025. Unfortunately, due to health issues, she had to withdraw

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Video recording of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Vision Live panel discussion titled “Review of the World Symposium on PH”, September 2, 2024 now available

The video recording of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Vision Live panel discussion titled “Review of the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension”, which took place on 2 September, 2024, in now available online on the ERS Respiratory Channel at this link Expert panellists Marc Humbert, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Ulrich Silvia, Isabel BLANCO VICH and Louise Bouman

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Key insights from the “Patient Perspective” article in the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension (WSPH) proceedings, European Respiratory Journal, August 29, 2024

The full proceedings of the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension which was held in Barcelona 29.6-1.7, 2024, have now been published in the European Respiratory Journal at this link. The proceedings cover the work of the 15 task forces; Task Force n°1’s article is titled “Exploring the patient perspective in pulmonary hypertension” (see below for

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Wrapping up a successful year of pulmonary hypertension knowledge-sharing educational live web events!

The Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension has just held the last webinar of the six-part series it launched in June 2023 exploring the innovations outlined in the 2022 joint clinical guidelines on pulmonary hypertension by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS). Across these six insightful sessions, we delved into pivotal

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“PH Roundtable: Pros and Cons of the 2022 ERS/ESC Guidelines: Practicality vs Real World View”, Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension, April 13, 2023

This article, published in Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension, refers to a round table covened to discuss the 2022 joint ERS/ESC guidelines on pulmonary hypertension. The round table was attended by Dr Thenappan Thenappan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Dr Marc Humbert, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris; Dr Vallerie McLaughlin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Dr Hilary DuBrock, Mayo

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“Patient engagement and self-management in pulmonary arterial hypertension”, European Respiratory Review

Abstract Improved care in pulmonary arterial hypertension has led to increased longevity for patients, with a paralleled evolution in the nature of their needs. There is more focus on the impact of the disease on their day-to-day activities and quality of life, and a holistic approach is coming to the front of pulmonary arterial hypertension

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Participation in pulmonary hypertension support group improves patient-reported health quality outcomes: a patient and caregiver survey”, Pulmonary Circulation

A patient and carer survey was conducted in the USA with the aim of determining if participation in a pulmonary hypertension support group has a significant effect on quality of life (QOL) in a population of patients with pulmonary hypertension and their caregivers using the emPHasis-10 questionnaire. 165 subjects were enrolled in the study; 122

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