Heart disease leads to an increase of
fluids in the lungs making it more difficult for your pet to breathe.
Not exact matches
The researchers placed extremely premature fetuses into the Biobag, which is
made of clear polyethylene and filled with a substance that mimics amniotic
fluid,
in order to help them survive long enough for their
lungs to develop more.
The loss of tissue
fluids has reached a critical level, the compressed heart is struggling to pump thick, heavy blood into the tissues, and the tortured
lungs make a frantic effort to gasp
in small gulps of air.
These microbes can attack the larynx and
lungs filling them with
fluids and this will result
in a gross cough as the baby
makes serious attempts to get the
fluid or mucus out of his
lungs through coughing.
If this doesn't happen, this excess
fluid in the
lungs can
make it...
The main complication
in ARDS is that
fluid leaks into the
lungs making breathing difficult or impossible — and
making it difficult to get oxygen into the blood.
In the final week of the antibiotic (the 6th week) I was taken to the hospital again and they suctioned the
fluid off of my
lungs - which
made me feel better for two days.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a potentially deadly infection
in which
fluid fills the
lungs and
makes it difficult to breathe, appears more common among heart surgery patients during flu season, the researchers found.
Fluid builds up
in your
lungs,
making it hard to breathe.
This decreases
fluid buildup
in the
lungs, thorax, and abdomen, and it also
makes it easier for a weakened or enlarged heart to pump the blood out into the bloodstream.
Electrocution and electrical shocks can cause burns and focal injuries,
fluid buildup
in the
lungs that can
make breathing difficult (i.e. non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema), and possible death.
The most important think we can do to
make your ferret feel better is to give medications that reduce the amount of
fluid pooled
in its
lungs.
Management of CHF may include diuretics such as furosemide to help move
fluid out of the
lungs and abdomen, certain medications that increase the strength of the heart's contractions and supplemental oxygen
in a home -
made oxygen chamber as needed.
At this time the blood will start moving more slowly through the
lungs resulting
in more
fluid leaking out into the alveolar spaces of the
lungs leading to
fluid on the
lungs which will
make your pet cough.
Thoracic radiographs can also identify signs of right - sided heart failure,
in particular pleural effusion with will be seen as rim of
fluid opacity surrounding the
lungs and, if severe enough, will
make the
lungs and heart very difficult to see.
Occasionally, lungworm larva, seen
in fluid obtained from the cat's
lungs (The BALF exam; read more about that farther down),
make th e diagnosis.
Radiography Radiographs which are
made with x-rays provide information regarding the presence of
fluid in the
lungs and the size and shape of the silhouette of the heart.