Girvan hopes the trials at a leading cardiology research centre will stop other families going through the same torment he suffered.
Alex, who is a former Royal Engineer in the British Army, lost his daughter Erika shortly after she turned 18.Erika was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, which has a low life expectancy, when she was 10 back in 2008.Sadly, Erika lost her battle with the disease a few years later.Alex also has a serious heart condition which has prompted him to undergo clinical trials at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.Alex has pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare, progressive disorder that causes high blood pressure in the vessels which supply the lungs.It’s a.
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