Pathologic assessment of vasculopathies in pulmonary hypertension

GG Pietra, F Capron, S Stewart, O Leone… - Journal of the American …, 2004 - jacc.org
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) includes various forms of pulmonary hypertension of
different etiology but similar clinical presentation and functional derangement. …

Spontaneous regression of pulmonary leiomyomas during pregnancy

JP Horstmann, GG Pietra, JA Harman, NG Cole Jr… - Cancer, 1977 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple pulmonary nodular densities simulating metastatic cancer were discovered in a routine
chest roentgenogram of a 30‐year‐old pregnant woman. Lung biopsy revealed nodules …

Handling of bioactive materials by the lung

AP Fishman, GG Pietra - New England Journal of Medicine, 1974 - Mass Medical Soc
Local vs. Circulating Hormones The lung is replete with cells that are loaded with biologically
threatening materials: not only mast cells, alveolar macrophages and wandering cells but …

Survival in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension: results from a national prospective registry

…, BM Groves, JT Kernis, PS Levy, GG Pietra… - Annals of internal …, 1991 - acpjournals.org
▪ Objective: To characterize mortality in persons diagnosed with primary pulmonary hypertension
and to investigate factors associated with survival. ▪ Design: Registry with prospective …

Histopathology of primary pulmonary hypertension. A qualitative and quantitative study of pulmonary blood vessels from 58 patients in the National Heart, Lung, and …

GG Pietra, WD Edwards, JM Kay, S Rich, J Kernis… - Circulation, 1989 - Am Heart Assoc
Qualitative and quantitative studies were performed on pulmonary blood vessels in lung
tissue obtained by biopsy, pneumonectomy, or autopsy from 58 patients in the Registry of …

Primary pulmonary hypertension. Vascular structure, morphometry, and responsiveness to vasodilator agents.

HI Palevsky, BL Schloo, GG Pietra, KT Weber… - Circulation, 1989 - Am Heart Assoc
The use of pharmacologic agents in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension has not proved
to be uniformly successful or predictable. One possible reason for the vagaries in response …

Angiopathic consequences of saturating the plasma scavenger system for actin.

…, KD Harper, M Guoth, GG Pietra… - Proceedings of the …, 1990 - National Acad Sciences
Two plasma proteins, vitamin D-binding protein (actin monomer sequestrant) and gelsolin (actin
polymer severing), have been found in association with actin in plasma from ill humans …

Muscle fiber orientation and connective tissue content in the hypertrophied human heart.

…, KT Weber, JS Janicki, GG Pietra… - … ; a journal of technical …, 1982 - europepmc.org
To elucidate the structural correlates of cardiac failure in myocardial tissue, muscle fiber
alignment and connective tissue volume fraction were measured at multiple sites in the left …

Primary pulmonary hypertension in association with human immunodeficiency virus infection

SA Mette, HI Palevsky, GG Pietra, TM Williams… - Am Rev Respir …, 1992 - atsjournals.org
… They have not been seen in patients with PPH studied by Villaschi and Pietra (24), nor have
… VillaschiS, Pietra GG. Alveolo-capillary membranes in primary pulmonary hypertension. …

Liver abnormalities associated with chronic mercury accumulation in stranded atlantic bottlenosed dolphins

AJ RAwsoN, GW Patton, S Hofmann, GG Pietra… - Ecotoxicology and …, 1993 - Elsevier
9Eighteen stranded Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) examined postmortem
were sampled for histologic study. All cases were examined for ferric ion and lipofuscin. …