BMJ

Pulmonary hypertension associated with acute or chronic lung diseases in the preterm and term neonate and infant. The European Paediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease Network ...

Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is the most common neonatal form and mostly reversible after a few days with improvement of the underlying pulmonary condition. When pulmonary ...
thorax.bmj

A randomised trial of domiciliary, ambulatory oxygen in patients with COPD and dyspnoea but without resting hypoxaemia

1 Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 3 The Northern ...
BMJ

Renal resistive index reflects Fontan pathophysiology and predicts mortality

Correspondence to Dr Hideo Ohuchi, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Centre, 5-7-1, Fujishiro-dai, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan; hohuchi{at}hsp.ncvc.go.jp ...
BMJ

Supplemental oxygen for pulmonary embolism (SO-PE): study protocol for a mechanistic, randomised, blinded, cross-over study

Background Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) mortality is linked to abrupt rises in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure due to mechanical obstruction and pulmonary vasoconstriction, leading to right ...
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Validation of the Withings ScanWatch as a Wrist-Worn Reflective Pulse Oximeter: Prospective Interventional Clinical Study

Methods: To achieve these objectives, we included 14 healthy participants aged 23-39 years in the study, and we induced several stable plateaus of arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) ranging from ...