Your healthcare provider may order a pulmonary angiography to detect the presence of blood clots and other blockages that can interfere with normal blood flow in your lungs. The test may be used for ...

As Zakir Hussain, tabla maestro and five-time Grammy Award winner, passed away on Sunday in San Francisco due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), there are concerns as to how this happens and the ...

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1 Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease & National Clinical Research Center for ...

Therefore, the possibility of atherosclerotic disease is low. Preliminary screening for pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and fistulas can be performed using cardiac ultrasound. For suspected ...

Deep breathing, lung exercises, and tapping on the chest are a few of the techniques that fall under what's known as pulmonary hygiene. These strategies are used in people with chronic conditions like ...

An arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is similar to an AVM. It is an abnormal connection between an artery ... MRI also shows what other important things, such as nerves, are near the AVM and that may be ...