Researchers at National Jewish Health and colleagues have completed the first study comparing lung macrophages in multiple ...
T he first patient in the UK has successfully received a double-lung transplant using a machine that is being nicknamed ...
Pulmonary fibrosis is a disease where there is scarring of the lungs—called fibrosis—which makes it difficult to breathe. This is because the scarring causes the tissues in the lungs to get thick and ...
Many are behind the breastbone in the pleural space, which is the tissue lining the chest and surrounding the lungs. Others surround the main veins and arteries of the heart. For example ...
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, is a serious lung condition that affects mostly babies who are born more than 10 weeks before their due date, weigh less than two and a half pounds, have breathing ...
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases grants R01DK123358 and P30DK020595 (C.B. Peek) and NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant 5T32HL094293-14 (C.L. Chao).
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 ...