A 72-year-old man with dyspnea and fever underwent 10 days’ hospital treatment for suspected pneumonia. Seven days after discharge he was admitted to Cologne University Hospital with left-sided ...

To investigate autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation of the pulmonary vascular response to increasing cardiac index (CI:ml/min/kg) following systemic hypotension (H), the pulmonary vascular ...

Systemic-pulmonary collateral (SPC) flow occurs commonly in single ventricle patients after superior cavo-pulmonary connection, with unclear clinical significance. We sought to evaluate the ...

Note that left and right refers to the side in the person's body, not how it is viewed on the page. The systemic circulation is under high pressure - it has to deliver blood to the extremities of the ...

Around the time that the American Heart Association was forming, congenital heart defects were well known and well characterized, but little therapy was available. Surgical management was not ...