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Pulmonary artery hypertension pulmonary arterial hypertension pah is a rare medical disorder which causes high blood pressure in the arteries to the lungs with no apparent cause pah is also called precapillary pulmonary hypertension or idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension ipah it is a serious condition. Pulmonary hypertension refers to abnormally high pressure in the pulmonary arteries in fact it could be called the high blood pressure of the lungs in normal lungs the pressure in the blood vessels is about one quarter of the pressure in the arteries of the body and can temporarily adapt to increased pressures that occur during exercise. Theres no cure for pulmonary hypertension but your doctors can prescribe treatments to help you manage your condition treatment may help improve your symptoms and slow the progress of pulmonary hypertension it often takes some time to find the most appropriate treatment for pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension is a common complex group of disorders that result from different pathophysiologic mechanisms but are all defined by a mean pulmonary arterial pressure of 25 mm hg or