Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) represents a complex disease with multifaceted pathophysiology involving over 20 identified genetic mutations that can contribute to disease development.

The diagnosis of COPD can be frustrating for both the patient and the physician, especially when a patient is identified as having the frequent-exacerbation phenotype. Counseling these patients is ...

1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Tannourine Governmental Hospital, Batroun, Lebanon. 2 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal ...

Panelists discuss how idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive ... leading to a gradual decline in lung function. The pathophysiology involves repeated alveolar epithelial injury ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a devastating disease affecting the lung vasculature. Recently, we determined that increased activation of the ACE2/Ang-(1-7)/Mas axis attenuates much of the associated ...

You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. Thrombotic pulmonary embolism is not an isolated disease of the chest but a complication of ...

Chest pain. This can be a sign of pulmonary edema, which means there’s fluid in your lungs. You need to see your doctor immediately if you have chest pain. Fluid overload affects people with ...

How Should I Care for My Teeth and Gums? Dental plaque is a sticky film of bacteria that builds up on your teeth throughout your day. It's colorless so you may not see it, but it's still there.

Introduction: By quantifying prion accumulation in addition to metabolic activity in the brain, we have gained unprecedented insight into Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis using PET. Leveraging ...

bham.ac.uk Exacerbations of COPD are thought to be caused by complex interactions ... In order to evolve new treatment strategies there has been great interest in the aetiology and pathophysiology of ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

Given that DED reduces the quality of life and health of patients, numerous basic and clinical studies in the field of ophthalmology have been performed to elucidate its pathophysiology, new ...