To investigate autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation of the pulmonary vascular response to increasing cardiac index (CI:ml/min/kg) following systemic hypotension (H), the pulmonary vascular ...
Expert Rev Resp Med. 2008;2(5):539-549. Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey also indicated that patients with severe airflow obstruction had circulating neutrophil, ...
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are among the top eight causes of infant mortality worldwide. Annually, CHDs affect around 40,000 infants in the United States, with approximately one in four having a ...
CHEST discomfort associated with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea is frequently quite distressing, and some patients describe this discomfort as pain. 1 During the past several years, we have noted in the ...
The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated with high mortality. The ...
Plasma is a straw-coloured liquid that makes up just over half the volume of blood. You have about 5.5 litres of blood in your body That’s is the same amount of liquid as there is in these cola ...
Inhaled corticosteroids pose long-term risks in COPD management, prompting careful screening and potential de-escalation ...