VIENNA — Survival rates at 1 and 5 years for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who receive bilateral lung and heart-lung transplants are similar, said researchers presenting at the ...
A new editorial published in Comprehensive Physiology underscores the critical importance of understanding heart-lung interactions in pulmonary vascular disease (PVD). Tim Lahm, MD, a pulmonologist ...
Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953. Dr. John Gibbon was a researcher and surgeon at Jefferson Medical ...
Perfusion describes when fluids such as blood and lymph pass through tissue. A perfusionist is a professional who operates machinery when this process requires assistance, such as during heart surgery ...
ILAs in patients with COPD are associated with lower lung cancer incidence but higher prevalence of other cancers and heart failure. Patients with ILAs showed significantly lower fibrinogen and ...
Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...
“We are very pleased with the new data presented at ISHLT indicating that surveillance monitoring using AlloSure effectively detected rejection and could be used to monitor patient treatment responses ...
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Study Shows Quitting Smoking Completely Is Best Way to Protect Your Health
In a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, new research from Johns Hopkins Medicine adds to existing evidence that smoking fewer cigarettes does not eliminate cardiovascular ...
To kick off National Influenza Vaccination Week (December 1 - 6), the American Heart Association®, American Lung Association®, American Diabetes Association® (ADA) and National Foundation for ...
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