A spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, leads to bleeding inside the artery wall. A survivor shares her symptoms.

Azimi, M.D. and Moses Grossman, M.D. A 14-year-old Tongan girl presented with a 6-month history of anterior chest wall cellulitis and fistula formation. She had been evaluated for bilateral ...

Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow down your overall risk here.

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The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care ...

These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...

RV has the ability to increase contractility by fivefold.9 This occurs at the cost of increased myocardial oxygen consumption dictated by increased wall stress due to ventricular dilatation and ...

Clinicians were advised to advance the catheters until the marker that indicated the estimated insertion depth was at the level of the skin on the abdominal wall, to confirm that ... X-ray of the ...