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 ...

AbstractThere is unequivocal evidence that exercise results in considerable health benefits. These are the result of positive hormonal, metabolic, neuronal, and structural changes brought about by the ...

The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated with high mortality. The ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 367, No. 1908, From biological and clinical experiments to mathematical models (13 December 2009), pp. 4741-4757 (17 ...

Plasma is a straw-coloured liquid that makes up just over half the volume of blood. You have about 5.5 litres of blood in your body That’s is the same amount of liquid as there is in these cola ...

Post-mortem material was examined from both members of 11 pairs of twins with the placental-transfusion syndrome. Material from a single member failed to prevent early delivery in 4 of these cases. In ...