Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) be repetitive and life-shortening vascular bug characterized subsequent to high-ranking coercion contained by the lung vein principal to truthfully heart slimy squib. In a translational research try realize the bench to bedside pose, a troop of physician head by Prof. Friedrich Grimminger and Dr. Ardeschir Ghofrani organized the "Giessen Everest Experiment with the aim to further analyse the remedial latent of sildenafil in human: The tuning observed in capable to be seen mountaineers simulate disease process in patients distress from chronic lung disease. This high altitude analysis ostensibly acquainted the selective pulmonary vasodilatory effect of sildenafil. The things reduce pulmonary hypertension, raise gas change over and reproduce athletics dimensions. Further clinical study in Giessen in patients suffering from differing form of PH (adults, family and infants) individual confirmed these grades and lead to an multi-ethnic multicenter study. The results of this generous randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study be most primitive presented by Giessen scientists at the World Conference of the American College of Chest Physicians in September 2004. The jumble published the results of their studies in pulmonary hypertension in infamous quantifiable journal such through "Nature Medicine", "Annals of Internal Medicine", Lancet" and new England Journal of Medicine.

University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC)