The Fontan connection creates a critical bottleneck with obligatory upstream congestion and downstream decreased flow; these two features are the basic cause of the majority of the physiologic ...

uhb.nhs.uk Chronic obstructive pulmonary ... systemic inflammation and has been implicated in skeletal muscle dysfunction, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes. It has been hypothesised that inflammation ...

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive cardiopulmonary condition associated with increased morbidity and ...

Scientists know the stomach talks to the brain, but two new studies from Rutgers Health researchers suggest the conversation ...

The recent EARLY TAVR trial (Evaluation of TAVR Compared to Surveillance for Patients With Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis) investigated the effect of early intervention with transcatheter aortic ...

They show that one of the methods used to produce "neurogenic pulmonary edema" markedly elevates systemic and pulmonary vascular pressures, the latter to levels high enough to produce pulmonary edema.

Our work demonstrates that after carbon nanotube deposition in the lung, acute local and systemic responses are activated and characterized by a blood gene and protein expression signature. The ...

In nine patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries, the effect of a systemic-pulmonary anastomosis on the lung was studied by comparison ...

Background: Severe pulmonary sarcoidosis is less common in Japan than in other countries, and the actual clinical situation of systemic steroid use in Japan requires clarification. Methods: This study ...

These roadways travel in one direction only, to keep things going where they should. The pulmonary artery is a big artery that comes from the heart. It splits into two main branches, and brings blood ...