Fibrosis of the heart and lung make up a significant proportion of fibrosis-related deaths. It has long been established that the heart and lung are functionally and geographically linked when it ...

it is certain to be difficult to separate the effect each has on the lung if they occur simultaneously in an infant. The hyaline membranes induced by high oxygen tensions experimentally and those ...

basement membrane, epithelial cell death and activation of proinflammatory pathways, which gives rise to the clinical entity known as ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI).

Of the 3 most striking findings (lung weights greater than 1800 gm., hyaline membranes and interstitial edema and fibrosis), 2 or more were present in 77 per cent of Group 4 but in only 11.8 per ...

Owing to lung hypoplasia and the lack of alveolar surfactants in premature ... mode of delivery, premature rupture of the membrane and placental abruption. Infant demographics include sex, gestational ...

Human lungs are organs with an intricate hierarchical structure and complex composition; lungs also present heterogeneous mechanical properties that impose dynamic stress on different tissue ...