Riociguat for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Why the study?
Does riociguat improve exercise capacity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension?
Population
Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension
Design
RCT
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Riociguat improves exercise capacity in pulmonary arterial hypertension; opens a new treatment axis for soluble guanylate cyclase stimulation.
Structured PICO
Does riociguat improve exercise capacity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension?
P
Population
Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension
I
Intervention
Riociguat
O
Outcome
Exercise capacitysurrogate
Riociguat provides significant improvement in exercise capacity for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Cite This Study
Ghofrani et al. (2013) studied this question.