THE pulmonary circulation is of paramount importance in failure of the heart. The presence of dyspnea, orthopnea and hemoptysis and a diminution in vital capacity imply a profound change in the blood ...

Lung disease is a general term for several disorders that include airway diseases, lung tissue diseases, and lung circulation diseases, some of which may lead to respiratory failure. During the course ...

What Is Pulmonary Vascular Disease? The definition of pulmonary vascular disease is simple: any condition that affects the blood vessels along the route between the heart and lungs. Blood travels from ...

—Bradley Allen Maron, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, discusses what we know—and especially what we don’t--about the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, prognosis ...

Higher blood levels of allergy molecule IgE were associated with worsening right heart function in people with PAH, a study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Patients admitted with background secondary pulmonary hypertension may have an increased risk ...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a key mediator of neural and haemodynamic effects. NO diffuses into vascular smooth muscle cells, stimulating the production of cGMP and leading to vasodilatation. The effects of ...

Abnormal lung scans obtained from patients with pulmonary embolism, pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and carcinoma of the lung were analyzed in an attempt to classify the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acceleron Pharma Inc. (Nasdaq: XLRN), a leading biopharmaceutical company in the discovery, development, and commercialization of TGF-beta superfamily therapeutics ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) with left-sided heart disease is defined, according to the latest Venice classification, as a Group 2 PH, which includes left-sided ventricular or atrial disease, and ...