This enhanced detection capability provides clinicians with a more comprehensive diagnostic tool for pulmonary infections. The study further showed that mNGS guides treatment decisions in cases of ...

The systemic circulatory system is the main blood circulatory system that transports blood to the organs, tissues, and cells throughout the body. The pulmonary circulatory system moves blood ...

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.

Hypoxia is a major cause and promoter of pulmonary hypertension (PH), a representative vascular remodeling disease with poor prognosis and high mortality. However, the mechanism underlying how ...

Diagram illustrating the study design. NVC, nailfold videocapillaroscopy; PAH, pulmonary arterial hypertension; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus. Demographic and clinical data were retrospectively ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The role of body cell mass wasting, muscle wasting, and changes in muscle metabolism in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is reviewed. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...