Development of the pulmonary circulation is a complex process with a spatial pattern that is tightly controlled. This process is vulnerable for disruption by various events in the prenatal and early postnatal periods. Disruption of normal pulmonary vascular development leads to abnormal structure and function of the lung vasculature, causing neonatal pulmonary vascular diseases. Premature babie...

results a total of 43 (12 males and 31 females, with mean age of 41.90 ± 8.64 years) patients underwent minithoracotomy for open lung biopsy. minithoracotomy mortality rate was 0% compared to the 0 - 5.2% reported for thoracoscopy. the mean hospital stay for minithoracotomy was 2.3 ± 0.97 days compared to 4.9 ± 1.53 days reported for thoracoscopy (p < 0.05). the complication rate was 0.05% and ...

conclusions concurrent pulmonary nocardiosis and tuberculosis is frequent in hiv-infected patients. rapid and sensitive methods such as pcr are recommended for detection of such co-infections. results from 157 sputum specimens, positive samples by acid fast staining, culture and pcr for m. tuberculosis were reported for 7.6% (12/157), 10.1% (16/157) and 7% (11/157) of samples, respectively. no ...

Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are a group of diffuse parenchymal disorders associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. These include large number conditions, wide range underlying causes, clinical manifestations, imaging, distinct pathological features variable outcomes. Pulmonary fibrosis is pathologic process that arises from multiple causes. Monitoring disease progression has b...

Y Gayatri Devi1, N Usha Rani2, G Sambasiva Rao3, M Narayana4, B Dileep Kumar4 1Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases, Visakhpatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, 2Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases, Andhra Pradesh, Visakhpatnam, India, 3Professor and Head...

Increase in body weight could predispose to obesity which can be linked risk of chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases, obstructive pulmonary diabetes etc. [1,2]. Weight modulation help avoid the development and related pathophysiological conditions [3].