Overview of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Scleroderma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKiYQRQY4Y

In this Scleroderma Foundation, Greater Chicago Chapter video, listen to Michael J. Cuttica MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Northwestern Pulmonary Hypertension talking at a Scleroderma Patient Education Conference about the relationship of pulmonary arterial hypertension and scleroderma.

Learn more about this relation here.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension can be a serious complication of scleroderma.

Last year, a review study suggested that borderline pulmonary pressure in patients with scleroderma can represent a condition of pre-pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). 

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