Two female patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and a permanently implanted
hemodynamic monitor changed treatment from inhaled iloprost to oral bosentan. The
hemodynamic changes were seen very early after the first dose of bosentan and there
was no need to re-establish inhaled iloprost.
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