Original Medicare and Part C should provide a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program for a person who has chronic issues with breathing. Original Medicare includes Part A, which is ...

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) lacks community prevalence and outcome data. Objective To characterise minimum ‘indicative’ prevalences and mortality data for all forms of PHT in a selected ...

The aim of this study was to generate and validate a numerical score for grading chest x-ray (CXR) severity and predicting response to treatment in adults with smear-positive pulmonary TB. Methods At ...

An amniotic fluid embolism is “a rare and life-threatening complication that occurs when a pregnant woman gets amniotic fluid into their bloodstream just before, during or immediately after childbirth ...

Although D-dimer results within a typical range can rule out pulmonary embolism, high results alone can’t diagnose this condition. Doctors usually need to run extra tests to make a diagnosis.

reported a 31% incidence of thrombotic complications, mainly in the form of pulmonary embolism. Arterial thrombotic events were less frequent seen in 3.7% of cases [7]. In a retrospective study of 400 ...

If it lands in the lungs, it’s called a pulmonary embolism. Estimates vary widely, but according to the American Lung Association, around 900,000 U.S. adults experience this type of potentially ...

Finally came the diagnosis: she had suffered from a massive bilateral saddle pulmonary embolism — in other words, a massive blood clot in both of her lungs. “They were like: ‘Congratulations, you ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a type of pulmonary hypertension that causes high blood pressure in the small arteries of the lungs. It is a serious condition that can impair blood flow, ...

I am a three-time pulmonary embolism survivor! My first PE was in 2003 after childbirth complications (including a collapsed lung), which caused me to be hospitalized for one month. After I was ...