The protocols offer a more accurate way to detect atherosclerosis and assess cardiovascular risk before symptoms appear, ...

Pulmonary vascular remodeling is a progressive pathological process characterized by functional alterations within pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMC) and adventitial fibroblasts (PAAF).

Original Medicare and Part C should provide a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program for a person who has chronic issues with breathing. Original Medicare includes Part A, which is ...

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) lacks community prevalence and outcome data. Objective To characterise minimum ‘indicative’ prevalences and mortality data for all forms of PHT in a selected ...

The Phase III API-CAT trial found that extended anticoagulant therapy with reduced-dose Eliquis (apixaban) was noninferior to the full-dose regimen in preventing recurrent venous ... embolism; for the ...

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If it lands in the lungs, it’s called a pulmonary embolism. Estimates vary widely ... and surgery at Sidney Kimmel Medical College and director of the Division of Vascular Medicine at Thomas Jefferson ...

She had a pulmonary embolism while waiting in line. “The whole thing still feels very surreal,” Jansson told Yahoo Canada via Zoom from her home in Gananoque, Ont., where she works remotely for a tech ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a type of pulmonary hypertension that causes high blood pressure in the small arteries of the lungs. It is a serious condition that can impair blood flow, ...

When the wall of a blood vessel breaks, a blood clot forms to "plug" the wound site and prevent bleeding. Once the injured blood vessel heals, the body dissolves the clot naturally. Sometimes, due to ...