Publications by authors named "Dong Ming Lee"
Article Synopsis
- Researchers studied kids with a heart condition called congenital heart disease (CHD) and noticed that many of them had problems with tiny hair-like structures in their lungs called cilia, which help clear airways.
- They looked at 75 kids with a specific type of CHD called transposition of the great arteries (TGA) and found that about 29% had low levels of a gas called nitric oxide, which is linked to cilia issues, and 57% showed abnormal cilia movement.
- The kids with abnormal cilia movement had more breathing problems, but tests showed they don’t have certain genetic diseases (like primary ciliary dyskinesia or cystic fibrosis) that could explain their
