Does pulmonary hypertension run in families?
Most patients with idiopathic — or disease with no known cause — pulmonary hypertension do not have a clear family history of pulmonary hypertension. However, a significant minority do. Investigators at Vanderbilt University have been studying familial pulmonary hypertension for decades. There is a test for the most common genetic mutation leading to pulmonary hypertension that will be performed in selected idiopathic pulmonary hypertension patients.
