Effect of high altitude on congenital heart disease paper published

Congratulations to our collaborators Drs. Alexandra Heath and Inge von Alvensleben in La Paz, Bolivia, for publishing their observations of an apparent protective effect of living at high elevation against developing pulmonary vascular pathology due to congenital heart disease. https://pubmed.ncbi...

Schistosomiasis-PH Systematic Review Published

Congratulations to our collaborator Dr. Camila Loureira in Salvador, Brazil for publication of her systematic review on the clinical and hemodynamic presentation of schistosomiasis pulmonary hypertension, finding similar characteristics to other forms of PH. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...

Review of skeletal muscle pathology in PH published

Congratulations to our collaborators Dr. Thais Menezes and Rudolf Oliveira at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, on publishing their review on skeletal muscle pathology in pulmonary hypertension, aligned with our collaborative interest in exercise physiology in PH. https://pubmed.ncbi....

PVRI Conference Presentations

At the 2025 Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, our group presented 2 posters. The first is an interim report and first results of our recruitment of schistosomiasis pulmonary hypertension and schistosomiasis hepatosplenic disease patients at 4 centers...

Monocytes, Macrophages and Hypoxia Pulmonary Hypertension Paper Published

Congratulations to Rahul Kumar, first author of a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation studying the role of monocytes and macrophages in hypoxia and high altitude-induced pulmonary hypertension. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39883518/

T cells in Schistosomiasis-PH paper published

Dara Fonseca Balladares is the first author of a manuscript studying the location-specific roles of CD4 T cells in schistosomiasis-induced pulmonary hypertension. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39273153/

Interstitial macrophages in PH papers published

In close collaboration with colleagues at the University of Colorado, we published 2 papers in Frontiers in Immunology characterizing the interstitial macrophage populations in schistosomiasis (first author Rahul Kumar-UCSF) and hypoxia (first author Sushil Kumar-Univ of Colorado) pulmonary...

S. haematobium paper published

Biruk Kassa was the first author of a publication from our lab reporting that Schistosoma haematobium causes more mild experimental pulmonary hypertension than S. mansoni. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38312832/

PVRI Conference Presentations

Our group had several posters and presentations at the 2024 PVRI conference in London, UK. - Dara Fonseca Balladares presented on the role of T cells in Schistosoma-induced PH - Brian Graham presented on Cardiopulmonary Outcomes of Schistosomiasis-Infected Patients in the Post-COVID Era at the...

Dexamethasone Prophylaxis Paper Published

In collaboration with Prof. Pasha at the Hypoxia Institute in Dehli, India, we published a paper investigating the peripheral blood mononuclear cell transcriptome in individuals who travelled to high elevation, half of whom received dexamethasone prophylaxis, finding that dexamethasone suppressed...