Professor Robin Condliffe

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497 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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What's Up Docs? · How can we look after our amazing lungs? · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

We all create little clots all the time from our blood vessels, and those blood vessels are very good at also filtering the lungs.

Not big clots, but all the time you damage, you know, you bang a vein and it will damage the vessel wall and it will create a little bit of a thrombosis.

And we're in a tension between making clots and dissolving clots.

Now, these are tiny things, but some people...

don't have that filtering process so you might have someone who's got a hole in the heart and so blood can go from the right side of the heart to the left side of heart without going through the lungs or you might have someone who has an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein in the lungs so they don't have a perfect filtering process so they are at increased risk of strokes so those tiny little things can go through into the left side of the heart

Out the left side of the heart.

If you take the first left on the way out of the left side of the heart, go to the brain.

So it just shows you the importance of the filtering process.

They do have other functions.

Platelets are the things in blood which make clots.

So if you do need to make a clot inside your body, you need platelets.

And the lungs mature platelets.

So platelets are produced in the bone marrow and they hang around in the lungs and they are matured into fully functioning platelets.

No.

I'm not making it up.

Yeah.

So there are probably four big, important lung diseases which...

give people morbidity.

Morbidity means they're not well and that affects their quality of life and what they can do and also gives them poor mortality.

So COPD, who knows what COPD means?

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