Sentences with phrase «from pulmonary fibrosis»

«One year is unreasonable,» Court of Quebec judge Johanne Roy reportedly told the 60 - year - old accused, who suffers from pulmonary fibrosis, when delivering her decision from the bench Sept. 15.

In my recent family history, I've had three family members die relatively young from pulmonary fibrosis of idiopathic origin.

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Compared with lung tissue of disease - free individuals, lung tissue from patients with pulmonary fibrosis had far fewer AEC2 cells, and those that remained were less able to renew themselves.

«Inhibiting DGKi seems to reverse the effects of cystic fibrosis, but not block ENaC completely,» says Margarida Amaral from the University of Lisboa, «indeed, inhibiting DGKi reduces ENaC activity enough for cells to go back to normal, but not so much that they cause other problems, like pulmonary oedema.»

The research team included Scott H. Randell, Ph.D., a leading expert in the culture of primary lung cells, from the Cystic Fibrosis / Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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.

A team of scientists from the UNC School of Medicine and North Carolina State University (NCSU) has developed promising research towards a possible stem cell treatment for several lung conditions, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis — often - fatal conditions that affect tens of millions of Americans.

There is INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE about the effectiveness of cystine supplements in the prevention or treatment of bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), end - stage renal disease (ESRD), epilepsy, fibrosing alveolitis, heart related chest pain (angina) or influenza, in promoting hair growth, improving brittle nails, boosting immunity, removing toxins from the body, wound healing or relieving pain in rheumatoid arthritis [9].

A condition called pulmonary fibrosis in which the tissue of the lungs becomes scarred and rigid, interferes with the ability to breath properly and extract oxygen from the air.

The term «severe handicap» means the disability which requires multiple services over an extended period of time and results from amputation, blindness, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, heart disease, hemiplegia, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), paraplegia, quadriplegia and other spinal cord conditions, renal failure, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, and any other disability specified by the Secretary in regulations he shall prescribe.

Support is provided on the whole range of lung conditions ranging from the more common COPD and Asthma to the less well known conditions such as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Bronchiectasis etc..