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, ...
AbstractThere is unequivocal evidence that exercise results in considerable health benefits. These are the result of positive hormonal, metabolic, neuronal, and structural changes brought about by the ...
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 ...
Melissa Lyle, MD: Hello, everyone. I am Melissa Lyle, cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic. Today, we will be discussing the management of Fontan patients. I am joined by my colleagues, Dr Alexander Egbe ...
Post-mortem material was examined from both members of 11 pairs of twins with the placental-transfusion syndrome. Material from a single member failed to prevent early delivery in 4 of these cases. In ...
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 ...
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a severe form of congenital heart disease which is always fatal without treatment. Though it has a wide spectrum of structural variations, it usually presents ...