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Glomulin (GLMN) encodes a protein essential for vascular smooth-muscle biology, classically implicated in glomuvenous malformations, yet not previously associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Case Presentation: We present a 49-year-old woman with progressive dyspnea, edema, and persistent hypercapnic respiratory failure. Right-heart catheterization confirmed precapillary pulmonary hypertension. Comprehensive evaluation, including ventilation\/perfusion scanning, autoimmune panel, polysomnography, and high-resolution computed tomography, excluded secondary causes. Respiratory assessment revealed diaphragmatic weakness and reduced respiratory muscle pressures, consistent with primary myopathy and explaining the unusual hypercapnic profile. Whole-genome sequencing identified a heterozygous pathogenic GLMN nonsense variant, while canonical pulmonary arterial hypertension genes were negative. No cutaneous or mucosal glomuvenous malformations were found. The patient was treated with oxygen therapy, diuretics, non-invasive ventilation, and dual oral pulmonary arterial hypertension therapy (ambrisentan and tadalafil), with stabilization but persistent hypercapnia. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first reported co-occurrence of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and a pathogenic GLMN variant. While causality cannot be inferred, glomulin\u2019s role in vascular smooth-muscle maturation provides a plausible link to pulmonary vascular remodeling. This case underscores the importance of assessing respiratory muscle function in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension patients with hypercapnia and highlights the potential relevance of extended genetic testing in rare pulmonary vascular disease.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/reports8040209","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,20]],"date-time":"2025-10-20T09:23:34Z","timestamp":1760952214000},"page":"209","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Pathogenic Glomulin Gene Variant in a Patient with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Novel Association Case Report"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6933-1068","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ilias E.","family":"Dimeas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa, 41110 Larissa, Greece"},{"name":"School of Medicine, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland"},{"name":"Department of Respiratory Medicine, St. Vincent\u2019s University Hospital, D04 T6F4 Dublin, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"George E.","family":"Dimeas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa, 41110 Larissa, Greece"},{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Karditsa, 43100 Karditsa, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4444-0967","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"George E.","family":"Zakynthinos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3rd Department of Cardiology, \u201cSotiria\u201d Chest Diseases Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2896-5210","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cormac","family":"McCarthy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medicine, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland"},{"name":"Department of Respiratory Medicine, St. Vincent\u2019s University Hospital, D04 T6F4 Dublin, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1058-9125","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zoe","family":"Daniil","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa, 41110 Larissa, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Georgia","family":"Xiromerisiou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3618","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehac237","article-title":"2022 ESC\/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension","volume":"43","author":"Humbert","year":"2022","journal-title":"Eur. 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