Pulmonary

Pulmonary embolism (PE) falls third behind stroke and myocardial infarction as the most common acute cardiovascu....

Understanding a chest X-ray requires basic anatomical knowledge. Before you can interpret a chest X-ray, you mus....

Hypercoagulability disorder is a highly prevalent clinical condition characterized by abnormal blood coagulation....

Patients with chronic, progressive pulmonary diseases are a challenging patient population, as they often presen....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that nearly 40 million adults in the U.S. smoke, and 16 ....

Any occlusion in the pulmonary vasculature, known as a pulmonary embolus (PE), will reduce the amount of oxygen ....

Every clinician should be able to understand the values listed on an arterial blood gas report. Correlating the ....

Respiratory syncytial virus is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in children younger than o....

Dyspnea is a distressing symptom that has been described since ancient times, but only recently has it been comp....

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by airflow limitation that is largely irreversible....