Recent research indicates that excessive water intake can unexpectedly trigger asthma exacerbations in adults. This fluid ...

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Aims: We have previously shown that fetal lung hypoplasia (LH) has more influence on the pulmonary circulation than on ventilation in newborn lambs (Suzuki K et al: Pediatr Res 57: 530–6, 2005). The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Patients admitted with background secondary pulmonary hypertension may have an increased risk for acute kidney injury and adverse outcomes, according to a presenter at the CHEST ...

Charles Burger, MD: Pulmonary hypertension really refers to a state where the right heart is generating high pressures to circulate the blood through the lung. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a ...

AJMC: Can you explain the etiology and progression of PAH and the importance of early diagnosis? HASSOUN: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) refers to World Health Organization (WHO) group 1 ...

For patients who have pulmonary hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (PH-HFpEF), treatment with levosimendan (Simdax; Tenax Therapeutics) can improve both pulmonary ...

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 ...