The lipid mediator ceramide contributes to tissue destruction in emphysema by promoting apoptosis of structural cells in the lung. This finding challenges a traditional hypothesis for the pathogenesis ...

PULMONARY emphysema is one of the most common, disabling and chronically progressive diseases seen in a general hospital. The usual sequence of emphysema, bronchitis, fibrosis and progressive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Right inferior pulmonary vein diameter and left ventricular short axis diameter at diagnosis are associated with ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian in New York have discovered that injecting mice with pulmonary endothelial cells-the cells that line the walls of blood vessels in the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- There's another disease to add to the list of smoking-related ailments. But for doctors, they are still learning about CPFE or Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema. For ...

Decreasing pulmonary hyperinflation using bronchoscopic lung volume reduction improved cardiac preload, contractility and output in a cohort of patients with emphysema, according to study findings.

Saleela M. Ruwanpura, Louise McLeod, Lovisa F. Dousha, Huei J. Seow, Alison C. West, Alice J. West, Teresa Weng, Mohammad Alanazi, Martin MacDonald, Paul T. King ...

Elastases of white blood cells are involved in tissue destruction and can thus cause various diseases. Scientists have discovered a new isoform which could be involved both in the pathogenesis of ...

Background: Osteoporosis is one of the important systemic features of COPD. Although COPD itself is regarded as one risk factor for osteoporosis, the relationship between the extent of emphysema and ...

The results of venous-blood ammonia and bromsulfalein determinations of the study patients are shown in Table 1. The mean blood ammonia value of 52 microgm. per 100 ml. for all the patients with ...

The three-time Academy Award winner, Walter Brennan died at the age of 80 because of damaged air sacs within his lungs. Experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine cautioned that emphysema (damaged air sacs in ...