What is pulmonary hypertension?
Pulmonary artery hypertension is a condition in which there is elevated blood pressure in the blood vessels carrying blood to the lungs. This blood vessel is known as Pulmonary artery; hence the name of the disease is pulmonary artery hypertension. In general, this means that a person has high blood pressure in pulmonary arteries. Due to resistance because of the high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, the heart works harder to push the blood across to the lungs. As a result, heart muscles become thicker and weaker, and due to this at times heart failure can occur.
