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At 40,000 Feet, This Is Why Aircraft Cabins Feel Different

Airline and Airport Management Graduate, Student Commercial Pilot and Commercial Aviation Writer. Stepping into a pressurized fuselage is a transition into a highly engineered life-support system that ...
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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 ...
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P40 The distance saturation product as an outcome predictor in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

Introduction & Objectives Idiopathic arterial pulmonary hypertension (IPAH) is a chronic, progressive respiratory disease, characterised by elevated pulmonary artery pressure. The disease carries ...
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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 ...
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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 ...