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 ...

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 ...

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

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion ...

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 ...