In the 1980s, when Stella Kourembanas, MD, began her career in neonatology, she cared for newborns with pulmonary ...

Each lung was injected through the pulmonary artery with a micropaque gelatin suspension (gelatin powder, 50 gm., micropaque, 500 ml., distilled water, 200 ml., and a few phenol crystals ...

Pulmonary angiography is a test that studies blood flow in your lungs. Its purpose is to find problems such as pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in your lungs), stenosis (narrowed blood vessels ...

A new UCSF study shows that the human lungs have just as many blood-producing stem cells as bone marrow. These stem cells are ...

If you have pulmonary hypertension, it means you have high blood pressure in your pulmonary arteries, the blood vessels that carry blood from the right side of your heart through your lungs.

Insulin resistance correlates with disease severity in CTEPH, and an indicator may help predict clinical worsening in ...

The oxygen in that air is absorbed into the bloodstream and pumped throughout the body by the heart, traveling through blood vessels to vital organs and tissues. The different types of lung ...

High-risk acute pulmonary embolism affects around 5% of all pulmonary embolisms and can take a dramatic course even in young ...

It's believed that BPD arrests the development of blood vessels in the lungs and prevents normal lung growth. About 25 years ago, Kourembanas and her colleagues started testing new therapeutic ...