A 72-year-old man with dyspnea and fever underwent 10 days’ hospital treatment for suspected pneumonia. Seven days after discharge he was admitted to Cologne University Hospital with left-sided ...

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 ...

CARDIOPULMONARY function in the mammalian organism is subjected to a major transformation after birth. The elimination of the utero-placental circulation and the establishment of the pulmonary ...

The role of the pulmonary circulation in determining the clinical course of congenital heart lesions in the immediate postnatal and neonatal period was discussed in the first section of this review.

Abstract Experimental evidence is rapidly accumulating which demonstrates that the arterial media in both pulmonary and systemic vessels is not composed of a phenotypically homogeneous population of ...

The purinergic signaling system is an evolutionarily conserved and critical regulatory circuit that maintains homeostatic balance across various organ systems and cell types by providing compensatory ...

Systemic sclerosis–associated pulmonary artery hypertension (SScPAH) has a worse prognosis compared with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), with a median survival of 3 years after ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 367, No. 1908, From biological and clinical experiments to mathematical models (13 December 2009), pp. 4741-4757 (17 ...