Last Week’s Hot Topic on Scleroderma

by admin | February 22, 2016

Last week’s hot topic on Scleroderma was Pulmonary Hypertension Prevented, Treated by Macitentan in Systemic Sclerosis Mouse Model written by Magdalena Kegel.

This article is about a study which showed that macitentan (Opsumit) can prevent pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in a mouse model of systemic sclerosis (SSc) by preventing heart tissue remodeling and functional changes. The results were presented this week by E. Derrett-Smith at the 4th Systemic Sclerosis World Congress in Lisbon, Portugal.

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