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Pulmonary edema is a critical condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs, causing leakage from blood vessels into air sacs normally filled with air for oxygen exchange. This accumulation impedes ...

video: The Wyss Institute’s human breathing lung-on-a-chip, made using human lung and blood vessel cells, acts much like a lung in a human body. A vacuum re-creates the way the lungs physically expand ...

Attempts to treat pneumonia typically focus on pneumonia-causing pathogens. However, at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, researchers have been exploring a different approach. They are trying to ...

By early detection of fluid in the lungs, a device allows early therapy adjustments to reduce all-cause mortality in patients ...

NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky was hospitalized with high-altitude pulmonary edema while on a trip to Utah’s Zion National Park. HAPE occurs when fluid builds up in the lungs and prevents oxygen ...

A 62-year-old man with a history of dilated cardiomyopathy and a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 30% presents to the emergency department with complaints of shortness of breath and weight ...

On Wednesday, the correspondent shared a detailed description on Instagram of his frightening Utah trip, where he suffered from a high altitude pulmonary edema while hiking Morgan Chesky is recovering ...

The extensive range of diagnostic capabilities and the compact dimensions of ultrasound systems have made lung ultrasonography an indispensable tool for diagnostic imaging. Lung ultrasonography ...

video: Fluorescent fibrin clots in the alveolar microchannel of the human lung-on-a-chip. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 7, 2012, issue of Science Translational Medicine, ...