What’s the difference between Arterial hypertention and Pulmonary hypertension?
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at
1:41 pm
I read up somewhere that hypertension in general means arterial hypertension.
Then what does pulmonary arterial hypertension mean?
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Yes, when the term is used alone, hypertension refers to the blood pressure in the arteries, or the blood running throughout the body.
Pulmonary hypertension is usually related to heart disease… the heart’s inability to properly pump out blood. This often causes blood to back up in the pulmonary arteries and veins, creating high pressure or pulmonary hypertension. This usually related to Left-sided heart failure, but can be related to a number of other diseases. The major risks of pulmonary hypertension is a pulmonary aneurism (rupture or bulging of the veins/arteries due to the pressure) or a pulmary embolism (blood clots formed in the sluggish blood).
Hope that helps!
Hypertension, per “Oxford Dictionary of Current English Usage,” is “abnormally high blood pressure.” Arterial has to do with the arteries of the body, while Pulmonary concerns the lungs.
Check this site out.
http://www.phassociation.org/Learn/What-is-PH/index.asp
HI! Really, pulmonary hypertension and arterial hypertension are the same. they just “upgraded” from PH to PAH to help docs distinguish from SPH and PPH and the like. SPH is secondary ph to someting like lupus, hole in the heart, etc. PPH is idiopathich or without known cause. mine is PPH and I’ve had it for going on 8 yrs or so. There are alot of places on the web to find great info and support for PAH. PHCentral.org and of course PHAssociation.org. are the two biggies.
take care!
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