A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung ...
Suggested approach: A chronic history, markedly elevated systolic pulmonary arterial pressures, RV and bronchial artery hypertrophy, thrombus calcification, webs and a mosaic perfusion pattern should ...
After controlling the pulmonary inflammation, the patient underwent thoracoscopic ligation of the supplying artery, followed by an open chest excision of the sequestrated pulmonary aneurysm and left ...
The findings may include bronchiectasis or an enlarged pulmonary ... chronic bronchitis, a pulmonary artery over aortic diameter ratio above one, or bronchiectasis on chest imaging.
Patients with pulmonary hypertension often present with nonspecific symptoms. These symptoms are often difficult to dissociate from symptoms due to a known underlying pulmonary or cardiac disorder.
PAH is a progressive and life-threatening disease in which the blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries (those that carry blood from the heart to the lungs) is abnormally high. This is often ...