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 ...

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.

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 ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

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