NIH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS
Episode 2011-20
Time: 00:59:35
Recorded May 25, 2011
Placental Growth Factor and Endothelin in Sickle Cell Pulmonary Hypertension
Gregory J. Kato, MD
Investigator and Head, Sickle Cell Vascular Disease Section, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary
Branch, NHLBI
Sickle Cell Disease, Vasculopathy, and Leg Ulceration
Caterina Minniti, MD
Staff Clinician and Director of Clinical Services for the Sickle Cell Unit,
Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, NHLBI
ANNOUNCER: Discussing Outstanding Science of the Past, Present and Future - this is NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds.
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Welcome to the NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds, recorded May 25th, 2011 at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland—an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Servies. Our speakers today, both from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, will address aspects of sickle cell disease. Presenting first is Dr. Gregory Kato. His lecture is titled, "Placental Growth Factor and Endothelin in Sickle Cell Pulmonary Hypertension." Dr. Caterina Minniti will follow with, "Sickle Cell Disease, Vasculopathy, and Leg Ulceration."
You can see a closed-captioned videocast of this lecture by logging onto http://videocast.nih.gov -- click the "Past Events" link -- or by clicking the "View Videocast" link on the podcast homepage at www.cc.nih.gov/podcast. The NIH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS podcast is a presentation of the NIH Clinical Center, Office of Communications, Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison. For more information about the NIH Clinical Center, America's clinical research hospital, log onto clinicalcenter.nih.gov.
And now we take you to the Lipsett amphitheater at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda Maryland, for today's presentation.
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