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pulmonary

1. of, or relating to or affecting the lungs
2. having lungs or lunglike organs
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A chronic, non-productive intractable cough is reported in 80% of patients with pulmonary fibrosis, along with other symptoms such as dyspnea and fatigue.
A You are right that chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) has no cure, but it is a treatable illness.
The charity estimates that 70,000 people in Scotland would benefit from pulmonary rehab but there's currently only capacity for fewer than 6,000 people.
American Association of Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Rehabilitation
The levels of thromboxane and endothelins are significantly raised in patients of SLE with pulmonary hypertension as compared to those SLE patients who don't have pulmonary hypertension.6 About 42% of patients with SLE with pulmonary arterial hypertension were found to have antibodies against the endothelin receptor Type-A.
The four defects are Ventricular septal defect (VSD), Overriding aorta, Pulmonary stenosis and Right ventricular hypertrophy (thickening of the right ventricle's muscular walls because the right ventricle pumps at high pressure)2.
Pulmonary cement emboli constitute a frequent complication in patients who undergo percutaneous vertebral cementation techniques, usually vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, with a reported incidence of 20-25% of all procedures, (1,2,3) even though the exact rate at which cement embolizes to the lungs is unknown because patients are not routinely screened with chest imaging before and after the procedure.
[ClickPress, Mon Oct 15 2018] Pulmonary arterial hypertension treatment market is envisaged to witness a sluggish expansion over the forecast period 2018 to 2028, according to the report titled "Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment: Global Industry Analysis (2013-2017) and Opportunity Assessment (2018-2028)," incorporated into the Market Research Reports Search Engine's (MRRSE) all-inclusive repository.
Objective: To evaluate the role of multiplanar reformations (MPR) in the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary embolism on multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) pulmonary angiography.
Then, the aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with false-negative CrAg test among non-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adult patients with pulmonary cryptococcosis and its clinical features.
Only in less than 2% of the cases it ruptures into the pulmonary artery.
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