After a long and bumpy path to approval, the U.S. FDA has finally given the green light to Cyclopharm Ltd.'s Technegas combination product a day after the Sept. 29 PDUFA date. Technegas is a nuclear ...

In a retrospective study of 100 patients treated with prolonged mechanical ventilation, water retention without evidence of cardiac failure developed in 19. This was associated with radiologic ...

CLINICIANS concerned with the care of patients requiring mechanical artificial ventilation have been impressed by the occasional development of gradually progressive deterioration of pulmonary ...

How Does a VQ Scan Work? The VQ scan is a nuclear scan. It measures airflow, called ventilation, and blood flow, called perfusion, in your lungs. The V and Q make up a math equation that helps doctors ...

When you breathe, a certain fraction of your air enters the lungs and blood flows through the capillaries. When this ratio is above or below 0.8, you may have ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch. A V ...

Study links longer duration of mechanical ventilation, a common factor in RAS, as the independent predictor of PPCs, not the surgical technique.

Assessing lung ventilation Newcastle University researchers examine images produced using 19 F-MRI of inhaled perfluoropropane. (Courtesy: Newcastle University, UK) Assessing lung function is crucial ...

Discussions will cover new guidelines for noninvasive ventilation in COPD, focusing on challenges and practical implementation.

Introduction: Patients undergoing lung cancer (LC) surgery often develop pulmonary infection (PI) due to poor sputum excretion ability leading to accumulation of secretions. Bronchoalveolar lavage ...

The influence of gravity on the distributions of ventilation and blood flow, as demonstrated by the effects of posture, is discussed and explained on the theoretical basis of gravitational gradients ...