Acute inflammation is a recognised part of normal wound healing. However, when
inflammation fails to resolve and a chronic inflammatory response is established this …

Pulmonary hypertension is associated with diverse cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic
diseases in neonates, infants, and older children and contributes to significant morbidity and …

Although survival after lung transplantation has improved significantly during the last
decade, chronic rejection is thought to be the major cause of late mortality. The physiologic …

Rationale: Long-term survival after lung transplantation is limited by infectious complications
and by bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), a form of chronic rejection linked in part to …

The American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society guidelines for the
diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have been published recently …

The aim of the present study was to describe the current situation of donation after
circulatory death (DCD) in the Council of Europe, through a dedicated survey. Of 27 …

Despite advances in medical therapies, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) continues to
cause significant morbidity and mortality. Although the right ventricle (RV) can adapt to an …

Das vorliegende Dokument ist eine Neufassung und Aktualisierung der Leitlinie zur
Diagnostik und Therapie von Patienten mit COPD, die die bisherige Version aus dem Jahr …

Background After the first investigational study on the use of extracorporeal photopheresis
for the treatment of cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma was published in 1983 with its subsequent …

First performed in 1963, lung transplantation is approaching the half-century mark. With
more than 32,000 procedures having been performed worldwide, lung transplantation has …