Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$23,642.00

Award Date

6/05/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

In patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) is caused by obstruction of proximal and distal pulmonary arteries with thromboemboli, and by pulmonary vascular remodeling due to excessi