Sentences with phrase «as nerve damage»

But doctors are imperfect and they can make errors with significant consequences, such as nerve damage, loss of a limb, paralysis, and even death.

Fido can suffer a number of health problems in addition to choking, including injuries to the trachea and esophagus, as well as nerve damage.

Peripheral neuropathy is defined as a nerve damage caused by chronically high blood sugar and diabetes.

Not exact matches

Just as I started to come to grips with permanent nerve damage and an array of side effects caused by my treatments, another crisis struck.

Former Pacers center Rik Smits, who stands 7» 4», wore such tight shoes at home in the Netherlands as a teenager that he developed excruciating nerve damage in his feet.

Even though breast surgery can damage the ducts and nerves necessary for breastfeeding, severed ducts and nerves can actually rebuild themselves through processes known as recanalization and reinnervation.

When adults do this, it can indicate a health issue such as facial nerve damage, but in infants, it is only worrisome if they keep them eyes open for so long that their eyes get red and irritated.

I am Strong because I had two extremely intense contractions during the administering of the epidural, but managed to stay still enough with the help of my husband so as to not incur any nerve damage.

For both women and men, diseases such as Alzheimers, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinsons, and nerve damage and urinary tract infections can also contribute to bladder problems.

This together with a healthy lifestyle will reduce the chances of developing the long - term complications of diabetes such as blindness, heart disease, amputation, kidney failure and nerve damage.

There is no way of knowing how natural the sensation is, but the method could help people who lack functioning peripheral nerves, such as those with upper spinal damage.

«Moving to non-invasive and repeatable methods of nerve fiber measurements such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy would enhance study of peripheral neuropathy by enabling early detection of damage, progression of nerve fiber deterioration, and enable assessment of therapeutic strategies in the SIV / macaque model,» explains Dr. Mankowski.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

Neutrophils are one of the most common types of immune cells and known to engulf microorganisms, but they are not normally associated with peripheral nerve damage, such as that caused by diabetes or trauma.

Polydefkis, also director of the Cutaneous Nerve Lab at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, says that patients with transthyretin amyloidosis typically have traditional symptoms of nerve damage, known as neuropathy, such as numbness or burning in the Nerve Lab at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, says that patients with transthyretin amyloidosis typically have traditional symptoms of nerve damage, known as neuropathy, such as numbness or burning in the nerve damage, known as neuropathy, such as numbness or burning in the feet.

In a report on their study, published June 20 as an Early View article online in Annals of Neurology, the Johns Hopkins team found that increasing levels of the protein clumps corresponded with worsening nerve damage, indicating that the smaller skin biopsies they used appear to work well as a measure of disease severity.

In primary open angle glaucoma, pressure inside the eyeball is high because of increased fluid production, decreased excretion or both, and the optic nerve gets damaged as a result.

A percentage of those patients have normal - tension glaucoma, experiencing classic problems such as optic nerve damage and vision loss, despite normal eye pressures.

«Instead of cleaning up when neurons die, the microglia assume they're under attack when they see too much cell death and kill nerve cells as collateral damage,» says Tanzi, who led the research team.

Researchers note these tiny artificial tubes could one day serve as conduits for regenerating nerves severed in accidents or damaged by disease.

In Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturing.

Arising from the abnormal buildup of a protein known as alpha - synuclein in the brain, such conditions damage the nerves that control blood pressure and heart rate.

Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, might damage muscle - controlling nerve cells in the brain earlier in the disease process than previously known, according to research from the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

Their findings, reported June 17 in the journal Neuron, could lead to treatments for chronic pain conditions caused by nerve damage, such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), as well as chronic inflammation, like rheumatoid arthritis.

As any good neurosurgeon will tell you, the nerves in the brain do not regenerate when they are damaged.

Researchers envision the e-dura being used in people with spinal cord injuries, as a brain implant and even to correct nerve damage in other parts of the body.

It also can act as an excitotoxin, over-stimulating and damaging or killing nerve cells.

The researchers were able to shut down Rb for a short amount of time and did not observe any negative results, leading them to feel optimistic that this could one day be used as a safe treatment for patients suffering from nerve damage.

Mobility problems and cognitive impairments may arise as the nerve cells become damaged.

Theodore Price, associate professor of neuroscience at The University of Texas at Dallas and a leading expert on chronic pain, tested UKH - 1114 on mice with nerve damage and found that it alleviated pain as well as gabapentin did, but at a much lower dose (one - sixth as much) and was effective much longer (lasting for a couple of days, compared with 4 to 6 hours).

An audible loud sound may damage hearing — as well as getting on your nerves.

Experiments revealed that the cavefish also have constantly elevated blood sugar but don't appear to suffer the consequences people do, such as nerve and blood - vessel damage.

The new technique, described in next month's Nature Medicine, could someday be used to prevent organ rejection in people, as well as eliminate the need for lifelong immune - suppressing drugs that make most transplant recipients susceptible to infections, cancers, and nerve damage.

Since Lipton's group co-discovered the SNO reaction some 20 years ago, scientists have linked the reaction to protein misfolding and nerve cell damage in cases of Alzheimer's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS / Lou Gehrig's disease) and Parkinson's disease, as well as heart / cardiovascular disease and cancer.

For a damaged nerve to regain function, its long, signal - transmitting extensions known as axons need to grow and establish new connections to other cells.

RIPK1, the researchers found, inflicts damage by directly attacking the body's myelin production plants — nerve cells known as oligodendrocytes, which secrete the soft substance, rich in fat and protein that wraps around axons to support their function and shield them from damage.

Approximately 9 % of the world's adult population has diabetes, which can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, nerve damage, eye problems, and kidney disease.

The impact from a single heading is unlikely to cause traumatic brain damage such as laceration of nerve fibers.

Implanted in the brain, Lieber's electrodes might one day serve as prostheses to help damaged nerves regain their function.

Using the patient's own scans in the simulation could greatly assist doctors performing surgery near critical parts such as the optic nerve and carotid artery, where damage could cause permanent debilitation or death.

They found that the mice can develop damage to the optic nerve despite normal pressure in the eye following KPro surgery and identified TNFa and IL - 1 as inflammatory factors involved in this process, with high levels of TNFa mediating the damage to the optic nerve.

The findings represent the first proof of concept regarding the role of TNFa as a result of keratoprosthesis surgery damaging the optic nerve.

As a result, mucopolysaccharides build up in the cells and cause irreparable damage to organs, bones, the brain and nerves.

Unlike peripheral nerves, which re-sprout axons when they are damaged, mature spinal neurons do not regrow axons in the part of the body where the injury has occurred — such as when the spinal cord is cut or crushed — which results in paralysis below the injury.

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

Diabetic wounds typically start as an innocent cut or scratch, and they often go unnoticed because the disease damages nerves so the patient does not feel it.

Studying mouse models of glaucoma, Ban, Apte and their colleagues identified a molecule in the eye called growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), noting that the levels of the molecule increased as the animals aged and developed optic nerve damage.

The subjects also experienced hypoxic effects, as cessations in breathing cause blood oxygen saturation levels to drop, possibly triggering optic nerve damage that can lead to glaucoma.

Both of these complications can cause significant damage to blood vessels and nerve endings, making complications such as cardiovascular problems more likely.

A particular type of macrophage known as microglia are found throughout the brain and spinal cord — in progressive forms of MS, they attack the CNS, causing chronic inflammation and damage to nerve cells.