Not exact matches
Currently, surgeons working to reroute blood around an
obstruction must harvest healthy veins
from elsewhere in the patient's
body.
The Division of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath of life in all its aspects: control of breathing; sleep disorders;
obstruction to airflow in the common diseases of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia; restriction to lung function
from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation of foreign
bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so on.
However, vomiting can also be a symptom of a more serious illness, such as bacterial or viral infection, intestinal
obstruction from foreign
bodies, urinary tract
obstruction, liver disease, or cancer.
Whether the
obstructions are caused by a scarred duct or a foreign
body, temporary stents can usually be placed so as to reopen the duct
from eye to nose.
Whether the
obstructions are caused by a partially scarred duct or a foreign
body such as a foxtail, stents can be placed in the duct
from eye to nose.
Incontinence, bladder stones or crystals in the urine, bacterial infections, cancer, trauma or even
obstruction of the urethra, the tube that allows urine to pass
from the bladder to the outside of the
body, can occur.
There can be numerous possible causes pertaining to virtually any
body organ system, but some of the more common are neoplasia (cancer), GI parasitism, liver or kidney disease, inflammatory bowel disease, food intolerance, diabetes, hypoadrenocorticism, chronic pancreatitis, bacterial or viral infection, partial
obstruction of the intestines (either
from a cancer, intussusception or foreign
body eg.
Interventional procedures — including cardiac pacing, balloon valvuloplasty, transcatheter PDA closure, tracheal stenting, urethral stenting for cancerous
obstructions, ureteral stenting
from both malignant (cancer) and benign (stones, stricture) causes, intrahepatic portosystemic shunt closure, nasopharyngeal stenting, arterial embolization or chemoembolization for bleeding or to slow tumor growth, arterial coiling of guttural pouch mycosis, foreign
body retrieval
from the GI tract, respiratory tract, or vasculature, etc