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 ...

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

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 ...

THE pulmonary circulation is of paramount importance in failure of the heart. The presence of dyspnea, orthopnea and hemoptysis and a diminution in vital capacity imply a profound change in the blood ...

Dr. Miranda Theodore (Medicine): A 28-year-old woman was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) of this hospital because of progressive respiratory failure. The patient had been in her usual ...

Advanced imaging, like 4D-flow CMR, aids in understanding PA remodeling in different PH subtypes, offering non-invasive differentiation. PAH patients exhibit distinct PA flow characteristics, ...

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 ...