pulmonary artery
noun
: an artery that conveys venous blood from the heart to the lungs see heart illustration
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Her pulmonary artery pressures, a key indicator of PAH treatment success, are better on Winrevair than at any point since her diagnosis.
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Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2024
This, in turn, impacts other organs, such as the heart and the pulmonary artery.
—Sherry Christiansen Updated, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2023
Seven of the rats had worms in their hearts, pulmonary arteries and brain tissues.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
Bryan Smith, assistant professor at UChicago Medicine, said coronary artery abnormalities make a person vulnerable to a mechanical compression during exercise wherein the aorta and the pulmonary artery compress an anomalous coronary artery and cut off blood flow to the heart.
—Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
The blade of her knife had slipped between Marat’s first and second ribs, a space no wider that a twentieth of an inch, clipped the aorta, passed under the pulmonary artery and entered the left atrium of the heart.
—Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2011
The procedure to get the CardioMEMS implant takes about 30 to 45 minutes, and is done by surgeons going through either a vein in a patient's groin or neck to reach the pulmonary artery.
—Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
The medical device that Korte had threaded into her pulmonary artery in 2020 is called CardioMEMS and was developed by Abbott.
—Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
The wound, which was one inch wide and three inches deep, hit her pulmonary artery.
—NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2024
This, in turn, impacts other organs, such as the heart and the pulmonary artery.
—Sherry Christiansen Updated, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2023
Seven of the rats had worms in their hearts, pulmonary arteries and brain tissues.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
Bryan Smith, assistant professor at UChicago Medicine, said coronary artery abnormalities make a person vulnerable to a mechanical compression during exercise wherein the aorta and the pulmonary artery compress an anomalous coronary artery and cut off blood flow to the heart.
—Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
The blade of her knife had slipped between Marat’s first and second ribs, a space no wider that a twentieth of an inch, clipped the aorta, passed under the pulmonary artery and entered the left atrium of the heart.
—Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2011
The procedure to get the CardioMEMS implant takes about 30 to 45 minutes, and is done by surgeons going through either a vein in a patient's groin or neck to reach the pulmonary artery.
—Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
The medical device that Korte had threaded into her pulmonary artery in 2020 is called CardioMEMS and was developed by Abbott.
—Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
The wound, which was one inch wide and three inches deep, hit her pulmonary artery.
—NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
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