Sentences with phrase «damage to the heart occur»

He said most cases of damage to the heart occur during the first 24 to 36 hours after surgery, when patients usually receive narcotic painkillers that can mask cardiac symptoms.

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When fully blocked, damage is caused to the heart and death occurs.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it, causing inflammation that often results in serious damage to bones, joints and tendons, and can also affect internal organs like the heart, eyes and lungs.

We have already shown that serelaxin prevents the organ damage that occurs during an episode of acute heart failure3 and we will continue to investigate other modes of action.»

The molecular microscope's ability to more accurately diagnose rejection, before structural damage has occurred in a patient's heart, provides us with an essential tool in the evolution towards true precision medicine.»

A heart attack occurs when blood flow to an area of the heart is blocked by a narrowed or completely obstructed coronary artery, resulting in damage of heart muscle.

Rutgers scientists said this study indicates how critical it is to carefully control oxidative stress — which can also lead to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancers and gene mutations as well as liver and heart disease — so that cell or tissue damage doesn't occur.

A blood test for a protein called high - sensitivity troponin T, which is released into the bloodstream when injury to the heart occurs, can identify patients with heart damage after non-cardiac surgery whose lives could potentially be saved with timely treatment, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific Session.

The naturally occurring arsenic kills human cells, leading first to skin scarring and then, as it slowly builds up in the body, to brain damage, heart disease and cancer.

The team found that inflammatory damage in the heart can not occur without the help of macrophages and dendritic cells made by the spleen, and that heart failure is to some degree an autoimmune disease.

CAD can progress to a condition known as Congestive Heart Failure, which occurs when damage to the heart becomes so extensive that it can not adequately fulfill its job as a Heart Failure, which occurs when damage to the heart becomes so extensive that it can not adequately fulfill its job as a heart becomes so extensive that it can not adequately fulfill its job as a pump.

One of the most serious classifications of this disease is known as diffuse scleroderma wherein the «sclerosis» (hardening of the tissue) occurs in the internal systems of the body, causing damage and widespread scarring to the skin as well as to various internal organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart and gastrointestinal organs.

After a heart attack has occurred, inflammatory cells known as monocytes rush to the damaged tissue.

heart attack Permanent damage to the heart muscle that occurs when one or more regions of it become starved of oxygen, usually due to a temporary blockage in blood flow.

Philadelphia, PA (Scicasts)- Researchers may have found a way to reduce ongoing heart damage that occurs long after a severe heart attack by improving the longevity of stem cells injected into the heart.

Although they continue to grow, the inability to proliferate renders the heart unable to regenerate cells after they have been damaged as occurs in heart attacks.

Damage to the heart and brain often occur before any signs or symptoms of disease become apparent.

Endocarditis generally occurs when bacteria, fungi or other germs from another part of your body, such as your mouth, spread through your bloodstream and attach to damaged areas in your heart.

Over time, damage occurs to the eyes, kidneys, heart and -LSB-...]

However, there are also high chances that without treatment the affected dog will continue to get infested with more heartworms, and in the meantime, inevitably, irreversible damage to the heart and blood vessels will occur.

Symptoms don't usually develop until significant damage has already occurred to the heart.

Adult onset heart disease can occur as the result of damage to the heart structure at some time during the cat's life, resulting in abnormal function.

Even though these infestations in children are relatively uncommon, if they occur there can be significant damage to the internal organs like the liver, heart, brain, lungs, and eyes.

Treatment involves a hospital stay of 1 - 2 weeks, frequent rechecks to include xrays or ultrasound to evaluate if any permanent heart damage has occurred, and retesting to catch any new infections while the current infection is being treated.

Kidney, liver, and heart damage can occur now because the bacteria may be spreading to the bloodstream throughout his body.

When a dog is coughing due to heart disease, often it is the result of the blood from the left ventricle or chamber of the heart being pushed back into the atrium and that usually occurs due to some type of damage to the heart valves or some type of change in the valve.

Long - term, continuous use of heartworm preventives alone to treat heartworm infections, however, is not recommended as an alternative to melarsomine, because it is well documented that additional damage to the heart and lungs occurs the longer adult heartworms are present.

The damage to the lung blood vessels from the worms, creates extra resistance for the heart to pump against and often episodes of collapse occur with exercise.

The damaged to heart muscle that occurs in acute cardiomyopathy in dogs or in cats can also cause CK levels to be high since heart muscle is also high in CK.

This damage occurs when blood flow is totally cut off to an area of the heart.