When most people hear the word hypertension, they think of high blood pressure. While not as common as high blood pressure, ...

enters a pulmonary artery (blood vessel) in the lungs and blocks normal blood flow. In most cases, the blood clot originates ...

Platelets tend to cluster in lung blood vessels in people with decompensated pulmonary hypertension, increasing their risk of ...

The ability to characterize the pulmonary circulation more fully paved the way for many advances. In the 1950s, Dr David ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH ... Small studies suggest this drug can improve blood flow in your lungs. The recommended dose is a 20-milligram pill taken three times a day, but it can ...

and the flow of the blood through these chambers. Most importantly, we can use it to measure pressure in the heart and in the pulmonary arteries.” Before the test, you’ll take off your clothes ...

The American Lung Association launched an awareness campaign to accelerate diagnosis and improve treatment of PAH.

Whether compression triggers a reflex, whether distal blood flow through the internal carotid artery is impeded by compression or whether both factors may be involved is often unknown. 8 In ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Northwell Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) in Ocean Breeze has become the first medical facility in the United States to treat acute pulmonary embolism (PE) using the ...

WE have recently studied 2 patients with symptoms of cerebral ischemia in whom a reversal of blood flow through the left vertebral artery was demonstrated. In both cases the anatomic lesion ...