The Discovery of Inhaled Prostanoids for Pulmonary Hypertension, Prof. Werner Seeger, Pulmonary Circulation, December 18, 2025
A very interesting article by Prof. Werner Seeger recounts the discovery and development of inhaled prostanoids for pulmonary hypertension at the Giessen Pulmonary Hypertension center (Germany) in the late 1980s-1990s (§). Initially researching acute lung injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), researchers at Giessen observed that while intravenous vasodilators worsened ventilation/perfusion mismatch, aerosolized prostacyclin (PGI2) reduced […]

