A new method of scanning lungs is able to show in real time how air moves in and out of the lungs as people take a breath in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and ...

Medically reviewed by Josephine Hessert, DO Pulmonary angiography is a test that studies blood flow in your lungs. Its ...

A $7.25 million award was given in a case brought on behalf of a 23-year-old who died after his doctor took him off of a ...

FEV1 differs in that it measures the amount of air you can exhale in one second. Your FVC and other pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are used to establish the status of your lung function. They compare ...

The role of echocardiography in acute pulmonary embolism (PE) remains incompletely defined. Echocardiography cannot reliably diagnose acute PE, and it does not improve prognostication of patients with ...

China is willing to closely communicate with Chile at all levels, continuously promote bilateral trade and economic cooperation, and expand collaboration in information communication, clean energy ...

Bedside chest radiography revealed diffuse, bilateral pulmonary opacities, consistent with pulmonary edema. The patient was managed with cefuroxime for infection prophylaxis, midodrine for vasopressor ...

Bilateral PE was predominant (n=18 ... Prognostic stratification scores from both the original and simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) were calculated, and the Charlson Comorbidity ...

Chest CT scan depicting increase in diffuse density of the lungs, bilateral ground glass opacities ... Contrast-enhanced CT showed no evidence of pulmonary embolism. (Pulmonary embolism angiography ...

What is pulmonary stenosis in children? Pulmonary stenosis is a birth defect of the heart (congenital). It can happen when the pulmonary valve doesn’t grow as it should in a baby during the first 8 ...

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