«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation,
greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
This results in a prolonged infection and
greater lung damage.
Not exact matches
This process creates a
great deal of
lung damage similar to bronchitis, which can worsen existing
lung disease and make breathing difficult.
Pascal James Imperato, MD, the dean of the School of Public Health at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, in Brooklyn, warns that prior
lung damage, such as that caused by smoking, can leave you at
greater risk of serious complications as well.
(ref) Although considerable
lung pathology (
damage) still resulted from the dying worms, one of the authors reported that the extent of
lung damage following melarsomine treatment was even
greater.
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