STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Northwell Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) in Ocean Breeze has become the first medical facility in the United States to treat acute pulmonary embolism (PE) using the ...

The use of a tiny tool to pluck life-threatening blood clots out of arteries to the lungs resulted in a high patient survival rate, especially when compared to historical treatments such as blood ...

Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy is a surgery used to treat chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. It’s the treatment of choice for this condition. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension ...

San Francisco, CA—Pulmonary artery denervation was associated with significant reductions in pulmonary artery pressure in a cohort of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Of the 21 ...

For patients with high blood pressure in their pulmonary arteries caused by chronic blood clots, complications after a minimally invasive balloon angioplasty have decreased substantially over the last ...

The ability to perform procedures is one of the defining characteristics that attracted so many of us to fellowships in pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, and thoracic surgery. In fact, ...

The Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the latest published research and science and produce a report addressing best ...

A structured pediatric pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program improved 6-minute walking test distance by approximately 230 feet and significantly enhanced strength and agility metrics. Spirometric ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with a sham procedure, pulmonary vein isolation reduced atrial fibrillation burden at 6 months.

Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) is a major surgery on the blood vessels in the lungs. It involves removing a blood clot from the lung to restore blood pressure levels. PTE is also known as ...