Edward B. Noffsinger

2009

‘‘The good news is that you scored higher on your exercise tolerance tests than anybody we’ve tested except for our young residents,’’ I recall my renowned pulmonologist telling me as I apprehensively sat across from his desk to hear about my test results on that fateful day in late 1991. ‘‘Unfortunately, your tests are abnormal and we believe that you have primary pulmonary hypertension due to pulmonary vascular disease with a patent foramen ovale.