There are many hemophilic patients and patients with Arterial Pulmonary Hypertension forced at home due to the coronavirus emergency that grips our country. Most of these require continuous assistance and care. Not everyone, however, can count on family members who can take charge of their health problems and help them.
In response to these increasingly difficult therapeutic needs, Bayer has decided to continue to be close to patients in therapy with its drugs by offering them the opportunity to receive the therapy they need at home throughout 2021 throughout the national territory.
The delivery of the Bayer drug directly to the patients’ homes, ensures therapeutic continuity and allows a reduction in access to hospitals and pharmacies.
“Patients affected by rare diseases – comments Simona Gatti, Head of Medical Affairs Area Specialty at Bayer – need even more to be protected. Thanks to the Home Delivery service we continue to offer a concrete answer, in this difficult moment, to improve the quality of life of patients and their caregivers, also relieving them of the emotional burden of having to go to hospitals and pharmacies”.
Arterial pulmonary hypertension (PAH) is a rare, progressive disease characterized by dangerously high blood pressure within the arterial vessels of the lung, i.e. greater than 25 mmHg, and vascular resistance. The structural alterations of the blood vessels create, in fact, an increased resistance to the flow of blood pumped by the heart. All this determines a progressive fatigue of the right ventricle that can culminate in heart failure, even fatal. The symptomatology of PAH is characterized by breathlessness, dizziness and fatigue. Arterial Pulmonary Hypertension (PAH) affects approximately 100,000 people worldwide and is most commonly seen in women between the ages of 20 and 40. In Italy, according to estimates, patients with severe PAHs would be about 2,000 but the exact numbers are not known because, given the non-specificity of the symptoms, there could be many undiagnosed cases of the disease.
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