Good breathing is at the heart of good health. When asthma or shortness of breath appears, a person might be sent for pulmonary function tests. Arlene Dunlap of Piscataway, N.J. knows those tests well ...

BACKGROUND: Right ventricular failure drives both morbidity and mortality in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but the mechanism of transition from compensated right ventricle (cRV) to ...

Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a practical, transthoracic, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the ...

Higher blood levels of allergy molecule IgE were associated with worsening right heart function in people with PAH, a study ...

Doctors use heart tests to diagnose or monitor different heart conditions. They include blood tests, electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, and coronary angiograms. Doctors use these tests to diagnose ...

The Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) program at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is one of a handful of specialized programs in the country offering expert multidisciplinary care ...

People with PAH often have problems in the tiny blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients to heart cells, according to a study.

The use of newly developed race-neutral reference equations for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation led to a significant increase in both the prevalence and severity of respiratory ...