Introduction Many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience a sustained worsening in symptoms termed an acute exacerbation (AECOPD). AECOPDs impact on patients’ quality of ...

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Cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) triggers pulmonary injury. In this trial we assessed the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of low frequency ventilation (LFV) during CPB in patients ...

For respiratory failure patients, mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-saving therapy to maintain respiratory function. However, MV could also cause damage to pulmonary structures, result in ...

Both ventilatory abnormalities and pulmonary hypertension (PH) are frequently observed in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. We aim to investigate the association between ...

Pulmonary hypertension is a syndrome characterized by marked remodeling of the pulmonary vasculature and a progressive rise in the pulmonary vascular load, leading to hypertrophy and remodeling of the ...

Potential therapy and confounding factors including typical co‐administered medications, patient’s disease states, disease prevalence, patient demographics, medical histories, and reasons for ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an interstitial lung disease characterized by chronically progressing lung fibrosis. The most common symptoms of IPF include exertional dyspnea and chronic, ...