I’m Aware That I’m Rare: Victor Tapson, MD (315): COVID-19 & PH

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SPECIAL EDITION PHAWARE PODCAST: Victor F. Tapson, MD from Cedars-Sinai discusses coronavirus (COVID-19) and how it might impact Pulmonary Hypertension Patients.

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Hi, I’m Vic Tapson. I’m in pulmonary critical care at Cedar Sinai Medical Center. Wanted to talk for a few minutes today about this coronavirus and how it might relate to PAH and how we should be reacting and some thoughts about this.

I think maybe the most important point to make first is while we’re taking this seriously, we don’t want to panic. One comment I want to make right up front is if you’re a patient with PAH, most patients with PAH are no more susceptible to this than anyone else is, but let me give a bit of background here. I don’t want to talk a lot of detail, because you can find a lot of this online. For those of you that don’t know, it appears that just like some of the earlier viral epidemics, like SARS and MERS you may…