Serotonin can promote both pulmonary vasoconstriction and pulmonary vascular remodeling and is thought to be involved in the pathobiology of PAH. A polymorphism in the serotonin transporter (SERT ...

Background Physicians treating acute pulmonary embolism (PE) are faced with difficult management decisions while specific guidance from recent guidelines may be absent. Methods Fourteen clinical ...

You may be given bronchodilator medication to increase airflow to your lungs. Your doctor may recommend pulmonary rehabilitation, a program designed to increase your awareness about your condition.

Care of the Athletic Heart is an American College of Cardiology course centered around sports cardiology and athletes' heart. The 2024 course sessions centered around electrocardiogram interpretation ...

The most widely accepted mechanism suggests that PPH is a disease of predisposed individuals in whom various stimuli may initiate the development of pulmonary arteriopathy. Vasoconstriction ...

To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

An imbalance between the production of ROS and the antioxidant defenses that protect cells has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a variety of diseases, such as cancer, asthma, pulmonary ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an exercise and education programme designed to help people with lung disease in managing symptoms of chronic breathlessness. This document sets out standards that ...

The formation of HPH begins with hypoxia-triggered pulmonary vascular inflammatory dysfunction, which is a cause rather than a consequence of the development of PH. Along with increased perivascular ...

The effects of short-term hyperoxia on age-related diseases and aging biomarkers have been reported in animal and human experiments using different protocols; however, the findings of the studies ...

Acute administration of a Rho kinase inhibitor significantly reduces pulmonary vascular resistance in chronically hypoxic rats, 26 advancing the argument that vasoconstriction is an important ...