5 ATS Abstracts Feature PHA Registry Data ats-abstracts-1000×400 Research based on PHA Registry data appeared in five abstracts presented at the American Thoracic Society’s annual conference:
  •  “Acute Vasoreactivity Testing Among Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patients Enrolled in the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry,” presented by Jared Dyer, pulmonologist at Virginia Commonwealth University.
  • “Impact of Insurance Type on Treatment Patterns in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry,” presented by Breanne McCarthy, pulmonary fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
  • “Addition of Patient-Reported Outcomes Improves Discrimination of Survival Prediction Models in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-REVEAL-PRO,” presented by Aparna Balasubramanian, pulmonologist at Johns Hopkins.
  • “Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Octogenarians: The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry” presented by Renuka Reddy, pulmonary and critical care fellow at the University of Florida.
  • “Predictors of Quality of Life in Patients with Portopulmonary Hypertension: The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry” presented by Marwa Oudah, pulmonary hypertension fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
All abstracts above will be published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The conference took place May 18-21 in San Franscico.In addition to the abstracts presented at the ATS conference, a manuscript based on PHA Registry data will appear in the Annals of ATS. The manuscript is “Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Mortality in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry.”