Pulmonary Hypertension
Deborah J. Levine, MD
Director Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic

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Pulmonary hypertension is a serious illness that becomes progressively worse.

For some people, pulmonary hypertension eventually proves fatal.

Millions of people are affected by high blood pressure (hypertension), a condition in which blood travels through the body's arteries at a pressure too high for good health. A far less common type of high blood pressure affects only the arteries in the lungs. Known as pulmonary hypertension (also called pulmonary arterial hypertension; sporadic primary pulmonary hypertension; familial primary pulmonary hypertension), it occurs when the blood pressure in the arteries of the lung is abnormally high, in the absence of other diseases of the heart or lungs.

This disease more commonly affects women than men. It is rare, affecting 1 to 2 out of 1,000,000 people.

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