The Fontan operation and its variants have become the procedures of choice in patients with one anatomical or functional ventricular chamber. In a normal biventricular heart, the systemic and ...

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 ...

Patients with cirrhosis usually have abnormalities in systemic and pulmonary circulation characterized by increased cardiac output, associated with decreased systemic vascular resistance and blood ...

For patients who have pulmonary hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (PH-HFpEF), treatment with levosimendan (Simdax; Tenax Therapeutics) can improve both pulmonary ...

A new clinical classification system is presented to define the severity of an acute pulmonary embolism (PE) and assist in developing adult treatment strategies in a clinical practice guideline issued ...

The metabolic activity of any tissue is limited by its blood supply; the more active any organ, the more blood it needs and the more extensive its vascularization. The changes in metabolic activity ...

Dr. Samir Zaidi (Medicine): A 48-year-old woman with a history of venous thromboembolism was seen in the pulmonary clinic of this hospital because of cough and decreased exercise tolerance. Fifteen ...