Surgical interventions on the pulmonary valve in adults have been increasing over the years, as patients with congenital heart diseases are experiencing extended lifespans. Reoperations involving ...

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 ...

Abstract: This paper presents the pulmonary acoustic sensor telemetry array, a novel hardware prototype developed for remote pulmonary monitoring, diagnosis, and prognostication of pulmonary sounds in ...

Combination therapies for people with group 1 pulmonary arterial hypertension are more effective at preventing clinical worsening (becoming more ill) and likely reduce hospitalisation rates compared ...

Significant gaps persist, however, in the implementation of race-neutral PFT equations in the United States and worldwide, because race has long been embedded in PFT interpretation. Moreover, the ...

Lung cancer poses a potential smoke screen for today’s pulmonologists. Overall, incidence rates continue to decline in the US as other cancers are on the rise, yet a growing number of patients are ...

A pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a foreign substance blocks an artery in your lungs, stopping blood flow. It’s usually caused by a blood clot, but can sometimes be due to lipid, air, or tumor ...

1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Affiliated Haikou Hospital of Xiangya Medical College, Central South University, Haikou, China 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Affiliated Haikou Hospital of ...

THOMASVILLE- Archbold is proud to welcome pulmonologist and intensivist Luis Wulff, MD, as the new Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Archbold Pulmonology. Board certified in Internal ...

aResearch Unit, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain bGenomics Division, Instituto Tecnológico y de ...

A subsegmental pulmonary embolism is a blood clot located on a distal, or distant and less central, branch of the pulmonary arteries. Treatment can depend on symptoms and risk factors. A subsegmental ...

A higher diameter and a faster enlargement rate of the body’s main pulmonary artery — dubbed the MPA, it carries oxygen-poor blood out of the heart toward the lungs — are independent predictors of ...