ANSWER: Pulmonary hypertension is different from regular or systemic high blood pressure. It’s not the kind that is measured with a blood pressure cuff.

In the transplantation world, technology has played a major role in advancing the way donor organs are transported and preserved.One advancement in lung transplant preservation that recently ...

Dr. Peng Bin-fei, one of the emergency room physicians, said that Wang's lung collapsed "because of the high lung pressure caused by singing high notes," SCMP reported.

Once the lung pressure is lower than the systemic blood pressure, or the pressure exerted on blood vessels during heart contractions, the foramen ovale closes, according to the 2010 review.

New research suggests modern ventilators, which have been used frequently in recent years to treat COVID-19 patients, may cause lasting damage to the lungs.

An acceptably safe value, researchers say, is a level of 2.5 Wood units, a calculation of how much pressure is in the lung blood vessel relative to the amount of blood being pumped out by the heart.

In a recent Yale-led study, researchers have found that the immune response in our lungs depends on the physical pressure experienced by lung cells. When the lungs fight off infections, various ...