Aims: We have previously shown that fetal lung hypoplasia (LH) has more influence on the pulmonary circulation than on ventilation in newborn lambs (Suzuki K et al: Pediatr Res 57: 530–6, 2005). The ...

Charles Burger, MD: Pulmonary hypertension really refers to a state where the right heart is generating high pressures to circulate the blood through the lung. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a ...

Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2015), pp. 204-210 (7 pages) AbstractPeripheral pulmonary artery stenosis (PPAS) is an underrecognized condition in the adult population. PPAS can lead to ...

Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2015), pp. 211-216 (6 pages) AbstractAn association between pulmonary hypertension (PH) and POEMS syndrome (characterized by polyneuropathy, organomegaly, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increasing numbers of doctors caring for patients virtually. While critical to protecting patient health during a pandemic, however, virtual care presents unique challenges, ...

Note that left and right refers to the side in the person's body, not how it is viewed on the page. The systemic circulation is under high pressure - it has to deliver blood to the extremities of the ...

Dr. Miranda Theodore (Medicine): A 28-year-old woman was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) of this hospital because of progressive respiratory failure. The patient had been in her usual ...

A new drug appears to have promising-- but not game-changing-- effects in people with two forms of pulmonary hypertension. Riociguat, a soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator under development by Bayer, ...

Biologists often show oxygenated blood as red, and deoxygenated blood as blue. This is just a way of illustrating it in biological diagrams. It's also helpful in showing the different regions of the ...

RECOGNITION of the magnitude of the problem of pulmonary embolism in man requires reliable data concerning its incidence. Unfortunately, most of the available statistics on incidence are based on ...