Sentences with phrase «arteries in the lung»

According to one study on mice, NAC can thus cause pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) at high doses, a dangerous disease when the arteries in the lungs narrow and lung blood pressure rises.

The symptoms we see in cats are mostly due to blockage of arteries in the lungs.

The immature worms then enter a blood vessel and are carried to the arteries in the lung where they cause an inflammatory reaction.

Vessels commonly blocked include arteries in the lungs, which cause rapid breathing or panting, rapid heart rate and high body temperature, and the iliac arteries (which supply the back legs), which causes a blockage called a saddle thrombus, with sudden paralysis of the rear limbs.

The danger is that a big wad of dead worms and clots will plug up a major artery in the lungs (an embolism).

A pulmonary embolism can be deadly because it blocks the artery in the lung, cutting off the blood supply completely.

Pulmonary embolism can occur when a blood clot in the leg — called a deep vein thrombosis — breaks free from the location in the leg, travels through the blood and blocks an artery in the lung.

Pulmonary Embolism: The arteries in the lungs are blocked, usually by a blood clot that has traveled from other areas of the body.

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These cytokines are known to be involved in problems in other body organs, such as the joints (arthritis), the coronary arteries (atherosclerosis) and the lungs (asthma).

Lungs, diaphragm, heart, veins, arteries and the intricate molecular apparatus of our cells: all that kit working in concert to deliver one molecule — oxygen — to where we need it.

She had furred - up arteries, desert lung (pneumoconiosis) caused by breathing in sand, osteoarthritis, a slipped disc, periodontal disease and possibly diabetes, as well as parasitic worms in her intestine and bladder.

The oxidative stress and resulting inflammation appear to play a role in the development of atherosclerosis (blocked arteries) and can make other health conditions worse, especially for people with existing cardiac or lung conditions including asthma.

Pulmonary hypertension involves an increase of blood pressure in the arteries of the lung that can lead to heart failure.

This rare and deadly disease mainly affects young women, and is characterized by very high pressure in the arteries supplying blood to the lungs.

Pulmonary hypertension is high blood pressure in the arteries going to the lung.

For example, in the United States in 2005, it was estimated that environmental smoke exposure caused 3,000 deaths from lung cancer and 46,000 deaths from coronary artery disease.

PAH is a serious, life - threatening disease characterized by sustained hypertension in lung arteries.

«Our results provide convincing evidence that the polygenic risk score could be added to the genetic investigation of patients with very early coronary artery disease,» Dr. Sébastien Thériault, an assistant professor at Laval University in Quebec City and researcher at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, said in a statement.

Published March 27 in Scientific Reports, a new study co-led by an NYU School of Medicine pathologist reveals that layers of the body long thought to be dense, connective tissues - below the skin's surface, lining the digestive tract, lungs and urinary systems, and surrounding arteries, veins, and the fascia between muscles - are instead interconnected, fluid - filled compartments.

Individual LJI scientists have made very significant strides against three inflammatory diseases in particular, namely coronary artery disease, lung disease and sickle cell disease.

Without the development of the heart - lung machine, there would be no surgery to repair congenital heart defects in children and no surgery to bypass occluded coronary arteries in adults.

Outside the brain, the endocannabinoid system has been found to be activated in virtually every physiological system researchers have investigated, playing a critical role in the modulation of the autonomic nervous system, the immune system, reproductive and gastrointestinal tracts, sympathetic ganglia, arteries, lung, heart and endocrine glands.

Smooth muscle is found in your digestive tract, arteries, lungs, bladder, and uterus.

And Fonarow noted that in contrast to the Brazilian findings, a recent U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute study «found that coffee consumption was not associated with coronary artery [condition] in either men or women.»

Soon, the heartworm larvae settle down in the arteries and blood vassals of the lungs, and within 3 - 4 months, your poor pet will soon be carrying a raging heartworm population.

Reid LE, Dillon AR, Hathcock JT, Brown LA, Tillson M, Wooldridge A. High resolution tomography bronchial lumen to pulmonary artery diameter ratio in anesthetized ventilated cats with normal lungs.

It is a severe and potentially fatal disease caused by parasitic worms that like to live in the heart and the arteries of the lungs of many types of mammals.

Successful treatment depends on early diagnosis (before heartworm symptoms are obvious) and the ability to kill all of the adult worms in the heart and arteries of the lungs.

As it progresses, parasitic worms grow and multiply in the arteries of your pet's lungs and in the heart, causing damage to the pet's internal organs.

The adult worms that live in the heart and pulmonary arteries are the worms that cause the damage to the heart and lungs.

These worms locate themselves in the pulmonary arteries going from the heart to the lungs.

Heartworm can cause devastating disease, their presence in the heart and arteries of the lungs can result in coughing, decreased exercise and in severe cases, congestive heart failure.

Adult worms (males ~ 15 cm in length, females ~ 25 cm) develop primarily in the pulmonary arteries of the caudal lung lobes over the next 2 - 3 mo..

The name is descriptive — these worms lodge in the right side of the heart and the pulmonary arteries (that send blood to the lungs), though they can travel through the rest of the body and sometimes invade the liver and kidneys.

They live in the right heart chambers and pulmonary arteries — the lungs — of infected dogs.

[1] The parasite is commonly called «heartworm»; however, adults often reside in the pulmonary arterial system (lung arteries), as well as the heart, and a major effect on the health for the animal is a manifestation of damage to the lung vessels and tissues.

X-rays of the chest of a heartworm - infected cat may show an increased width of the pulmonary arteries and focal or diffuse opacities in the lungs.

Tiny heartworm larvae are injected into the blood stream where they mature over the span of about 6 months until they reach adulthood in the veins of the pulmonary artery and lungs, where they reproduce and release microfilaria into the blood for the mosquito to ingest and pass on.

Over time (typically about eight months) these larvae thrive and develop in the bitten cat's body, initially in the subcutaneous tissues directly beneath the skin, then in the muscle tissues and eventually in the right ventricle of the animal's heart, in its lungs and in the arteries associated with those vital organs.

The pulmonary veins were slightly larger than the pulmonary arteries; the lung parenchyma with diffuse interstitial pattern in the area of the hilus.

In time they reach the arteries of the lungs where they continue to develop and grow.

They reside preferentially in the pulmonary arterial system (the arteries that carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs) and heart.

They will grow and develop and move to progressively larger arteries of the lungs until they finally arrive in the main pulmonary artery.

Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal condition caused by parasitic worms living in the arteries of the lungs and occasionally in the right side of the heart of dogs and cats.

Heartworm treatment generally causes problems in the lungs, via the damage to the blood vessels that supply them (the pulmonary arteries).

Most of the worms will actually be in the pulmonary arteries (taking blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to get oxygen).

These parasitic worms live in the arteries of the dog's lungs and other internal organs.

In re: «throwing a worm» (lousy description) The worms live in the larger diameter pulmonary arteries (that take blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to get oxygen), pretty close to the hearIn re: «throwing a worm» (lousy description) The worms live in the larger diameter pulmonary arteries (that take blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to get oxygen), pretty close to the hearin the larger diameter pulmonary arteries (that take blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to get oxygen), pretty close to the heart.

This is helpful because many cats with cat heartworm develop enlarged pulmonary arteries, or have obstructions in the arteries leading to the lungs.

Complications of pericardiocentesis include cardiac injury or puncture resulting in arrhythmias, pneumothorax or hemorrhage due to lung laceration, coronary artery laceration, and potential for dispersion of infection or neoplastic cells into the pleural space.5