A new technique to mark peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) before surgical resection was studied by Ganesh Krishna, M.D., a ...

Patients with COPD and established cardiovascular disease have more MACEs and seek less preventive cardiac care than patients with CVD alone.

The Milwaukee Bucks announced in late March that star guard Damian Lillard has deep vein thrombosis in his right calf — a ...

Investigators studied the prevalence and outcomes of venous thromboembolic events (VTEs) among hospitalized patients with and without CKD.

Aaron Holley, MD, writes that it takes a 'physiologic village' to create activity intolerance after pulmonary embolism, and ...

Alice Wanjiku Kirumba, a 35-year-old mother of two, is seeking to raise KSh 8.5 million to undergo treatment for Chronic ...

Objective Whether splenectomy increases the risk of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) remains unclear. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the association ...

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 ...

Objectives To identify end-of-life preferences of people with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to compare characteristics between those who wish to discuss the end-of-life and ...

Background Recent evidence showed that 50% of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be attributable to air pollution. We aimed to investigate the association between long-term air pollution ...

Two-thirds of those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, don't even know they've got it, but it's the second most common cause of emergency hospital admissions.

Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a long-term infection of the liver caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). While acute hepatitis B infection is often resolved by the immune system, CHB occurs when the ...