Pulmonary Circulation : A new venue for communicating your findings, ideas and perspectives

1 Pulmonary Circulation Pulmonary Circulation: A new venue for communicating your fi ndings, ideas and perspectives Welcome Pulmonary circulation is the flow of blood from the right ventricle through the pulmonary artery to the lungs, where carbon dioxide (CO 2) is exchanged for oxygen (O 2), and back through the pulmonary vein to the left atrium. The pulmonary vasculature includes the arteries from the main pulmonary to the precapillary arterioles, the capillaries, and the vein from the capillary to the left atrium. – Wikipedia. The pulmonary circulation, once referred to as the lesser circulation, is now a circulatory system that medical and research professionals (as well as patients) can no longer ignore. Based on the World Health Organization's (WHO) annual report in 2010, pulmonary vascular disease (e.g., pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism) affects more than two million people in the world. The survival from idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), a rare form of pulmonary hypertension that predominantly affects younger women, is similar to cancer and is worse than many ischemic cardiovascular diseases. In PubMed, " pulmonary vascular disease " generates almost 90,000 publications, while " pulmonary artery " generates more than 62,000 hits. " Hypertension " yields 321,623 publications, of which 38,486 are related to pulmonary hypertension. " Artery " generates 597,907 hits, of which 78,734 publications are related to " pulmonary artery. " " Heart " generates 956,653 publications, of which there are 153,194 publications related to " left heart " and 73,071 publications related to " right heart. " These data indicate that approximately 15% of the publications in the cardiovascular field are related to pulmonary circulation. There are many journals currently available in the fields of cardiology, cardiovascular physiology, cardiovascular disease, systemic circulation and systemic hypertension, as well as lung biology, respiratory physiology and pathophysiology. For many years, physicians, investigators and trainees with an interest in the field of pulmonary circulation and pulmonary vascular disease published their work in general medical journals We should be rightly proud of the great and extensive contributions made during the last century by physicians and investigators in the pulmonary circulation field and published in the prestigious journals mentioned above. However, journals specifically aiming at the pulmonary circulation and pulmonary vascular diseases are not available at present. After discussion with many colleagues in the field, there was widely held enthusiasm for a new and specialized journal for: (a) physicians, surgeons and practitioners in …