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 ...
Expert Rev Resp Med. 2008;2(5):539-549. Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey also indicated that patients with severe airflow obstruction had circulating neutrophil, ...
CHEST discomfort associated with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea is frequently quite distressing, and some patients describe this discomfort as pain. 1 During the past several years, we have noted in the ...
Melissa Lyle, MD: Hello, everyone. I am Melissa Lyle, cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic. Today, we will be discussing the management of Fontan patients. I am joined by my colleagues, Dr Alexander Egbe ...
The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated with high mortality. The ...
Plasma is a straw-coloured liquid that makes up just over half the volume of blood. You have about 5.5 litres of blood in your body That’s is the same amount of liquid as there is in these cola ...
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a severe form of congenital heart disease which is always fatal without treatment. Though it has a wide spectrum of structural variations, it usually presents ...