Patient Care
The Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Program at UPMC is a unique multidisciplinary program which incorporates clinical and research expertise in both cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. The clinical program includes a a team of pulmonologists, cardiologists, and specialists that collaborate to discuss PH patients’ cases, diagnoses, testing, and potential therapies. The approach the patient’s care is personalized and promotes the physicians’ ability to properly manage the patient from evaluation and diagnosis to therapy and treatment.
The program integrates:
- A multidisciplinary approach
- Experts in Pulmonology and Cardiology
- Surgical experts for CTePH and lung transplantation
- Expertise in rehabilitation (both Cardiac and Pulmonary)
- Nutritionists/Dieticians
- Palliative Care expertise for end-stage PH
The multidisciplinary team has access to a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services including:
- Accurate diagnostic studies: PFT, RV echocardiogram, diagnostic RH catheterization
- Expertise in Medical Therapy: oral, inhaled, parenteral (IV or SC)
- Surgical ability for thromboendarterectomy for CTePH
- Advanced Heart Failure therapy – LVAD, Heart Transplant
Conditions We Treat
Drug-induced PAH
PAH associated with connective tissue disease
HIV-associated PAH
Congenital heart disease
Sickle Cell Disease