Pulmonary hypertension is an incurable disease, however, there are treatments available that helps to relieve the symptoms and can remission on the rate at how the disease can progress. Pulmonary hypertension is treated with the help of medicines or intravenous methods, and the

Patients affected with Group One Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension are those who inherited the disease without any known cause or conditions.  Medicines available to treat this type of PH include those which can relax the blood vessels so that higher amount of blood can flow. These include:

In order to find out which of these medicines are suitable for the patient, normally a procedure named acute vasoreactivity test is carried out.  The test reveals the actual blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries, reacting to individual medicines. The optimal performance of regulation and reaction then helps the doctor to elect which medicine is perfect for the subjective patient.  The acute vasoreactivity test is done during right heart catheterization – a process where a long and flexible tube known as a catheter is placed in the blood vessels of the arm or groins and threaded right into the heart. The doctors can then diagnose tests and treatments necessary on the heart conditions.