I was starting my career as an opera singer in Europe, when I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension also known as PH.

There's actually a for the first time now, something going to human trials, that actually cures pulmonary hypertension a fatal disease using gene therapy.

Six years before that, I was starting my career as an opera singer in Europe, when I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension also known as PH.

While she didn't have any medical evidence to back up her claim that there was a relationship between operatic arias and pulmonary hypertension, she was absolutely emphatic

Let's talk about hypertension, I'll write that here hypertension

Arterial hypertension

It's not pre hypertension, it's actual hypertension, high blood pressure.

Pulmonary flow.

Genetic hypertension Dopamine receptor mutations can cause genetic hypertension in humans.

While she didn't have any medical evidence to back up her claim that there was a relationship between operatic arias and pulmonary hypertension, she was absolutely emphatic I was singing my own obituary.

I like to do things big, and it meant one thing there is a big gun treatment for pulmonary hypertension called Flolan, and it's not just a drug it's a way of life.

I like to do things big, and it meant one thing there is a big gun treatment for pulmonary hypertension called Flolan, and it's not just a drug it's a way of life.

And there are two arteries, so pulmonary arteries left and right pulmonary arteries.

Hypertension? What causes that?

So you're systolic is stage 1 hypertension, and your diastolic is in pre hypertension.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Call it Pulmonary valve.

When we're talking about pulmonary arteries and veins remember, the pulmonary artery was blue.

Is it a pulmonary artery?

So when we're dealing with non pulmonary arteries, we're oxygenated, but a pulmonary artery has no oxygen.

I don't have hypertension, but I'm getting there, so I'm getting closer and this would be Pre hypertension

They're called pulmonary arteries and veins.

So we're talking about pulmonary veins.

This is in the pulmonary artery.

Because the word pulmonary means lungs.

And I've drawn it as one tube with no split and this is the pulmonary trunk. Pulmonary trunk.

And this is my right pulmonary artery.

There is a suspicion that chronic hemolysis causing chronically depleted nitric oxide may lead to the development of pulmonary hypertension (increased pressure in the blood vessels supplying the lung), which in turn puts strain on the heart and causes heart failure.

Gestational hypertension or pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) is the development of new hypertension in a pregnant woman after 20 weeks gestation without the presence of protein in the urine or other signs of preeclampsia.

So this right here is the pulmonary I'm using the word pulmonary because it's going to or from the lungs.

He also has hypertension. Let's call it Y.

Now you're saying, Sal, what does pulmonary mean?

That's pre hypertension, so you're still not there yet.

It gets oxygenated and now it's a pulmonary vein.

It's the pulmonary artery and it is de oxygenated.

So this is my right and left pulmonary artery.

Right here in Tanzania, 30 percent of individuals have hypertension.

Well, for the past year, your husband has had hypertension.

And going back to the heart are the pulmonary veins.

Hypertension (HTN or HT) or high blood pressure, sometimes called arterial hypertension, is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is elevated.

Diabetes I've just mentioned. Heart failure we already talked about. Hypertension

These are just for information hypertension, diabetes, obesity, lack of exercise.

c Until 1997 referred to as other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

The pulmonary veins drain blood and into the left atrium, right.

And this part of the journey is called the pulmonary circulation.