Sentences with phrase «ischemic damage»

It is surmised that recovery from acute hepatic necrosis or ischemic damage requires a higher protein intake to maintain a positive nitrogen balance.

Prevent self - trauma in response to concomitant skin diseases — any coexistent skin disease characterized by pruritus must be relentlessly managed long - term to prevent the cycle of self - trauma followed by further ischemic damage.

The majority of clinical trials conducted during the last decade proved that BMSCs are able to improve significantly the left ventricular function deteriorated due to ischemic damage.

The major outcome of ischemic damage is aggravation of the heart muscle function, known as cardiomyopathy.

We are now moving this discovery into Phase II clinical trials (FDA approved) in patients suffering ischemic damage to the heart.

Dr. Srivastava has co-founded a biotechnology company to help find new cures for many human diseases and one of the developmental genes whose role he discovered, Thymosin β4, is currently in clinical trials for patients suffering ischemic damage to the heart.

Not exact matches

That's more than 5X the rate of 0.4 / 1000 found in a 2009 report on birth in South Australia.In addition, 2 babies suffered hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (brain damage due to lack of oxygen).

Immediate applications for the oxygen - sensing bandage include monitoring patients with a risk of developing ischemic (restricted blood supply) conditions, postoperative monitoring of skin grafts or flaps, and burn - depth determination as a guide for surgical debridement — the removal of dead or damaged tissue from the body.

The researchers, who evaluated the BSCB in test animals at seven and 30 days after stroke modeling, found that ischemic stroke damaged the gray and white matter in the cervical spinal cord on both sides of the spinal column, based on analysis of electron microscope images.

A team of researchers at the University of South Florida investigating the short and long - term effects of ischemic stroke in a rodent model has found that stroke can cause long - term damage to the blood - spinal cord barrier (BSCB), creating a «toxic environment» in the spinal cord that might leave stroke survivors susceptible to motor dysfunction and disease pathology.

Dr. Paul R. Sanberg, Distinguished University Professor, a co-author of the paper, concluded that «these novel data showing BSCB damage in subacute and chronic ischemic stroke may lead to development of new therapeutic approaches for patients with ischemic cerebral infarction.»

«This study, carried out using laboratory rats modeling stroke, demonstrated that ischemic stroke — in both its subacute and chronic stages — damages the BSCB in a variety of ways, creating a toxic environment in the spinal cord that can lead to further disability and exacerbate disease pathology,» said study lead author Dr. Svitlana Garbuzova - Davis, associate professor in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.

Earlier studies in STEMI patients showed that ischemic postconditioning improved ST - segment resolution — an important marker of arterial blockage on electrocardiogram — reduced damage to heart muscle, and in some patients limited the extent of reperfusion injury.

We found that when we injected these cells into a damaged, ischemic limb, there was almost 100 percent restoration of blood flow in a month.

Previous clinical and animal research showed that mice receive less tissue damage under ischemic condition than humans, but the cause of the difference was not clear.

EPO has now been shown to be protective against ischemic injury [64] and light damage [16], and the upregulation of EPOR following a recovery period post-hypoxia is likely important in this protection.

In animals, these cells quickly repaired vascular damage, cutting the death rate after a heart attack in half and restoring the blood flow to ischemic limbs that might otherwise have to be amputated.

Okyanos cardiac cell therapy targets the restoration of blood flow to the heart and repairs damaged heart tissue caused by heart attack or ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease.

Glycogen synthase kinase - 3 inhibition reduces ischemic cerebral damage, restores impaired mitochondrial biogenesis and prevents ROS production..

In an ongoing clinical trial funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, 3K3A - APC alone is being given to patients within a few hours of ischemic stroke (blocked blood flow to the brain), to determine if the protein can help protect against brain damage.

The brain mapping capabilities of the transcranial magnetic stimulation demonstrated that a transient ischemic attack is in fact causing brain damage which lasts much longer than previously thought.

The risk of stroke dramatically increases in the days following an attack, and the transient ischemic attack could present a chance to minimize the risk or find a cause in order to prevent the permanent neurologic damage that results due to a stroke.

More interestingly, the effects on infarction size, survival rates and cardiac function can be observed even if the dietary intervention is induced after the ischemic event, by increasing the expression of angiogenic factors and increased vascularization of the damaged myocardium, proposing a novel non-pharmacological therapy for subjects with chronic heart failure (43).

A pale green to gray fluid indicates arterial (blood vessel) damage caused by ischemic (insufficient blood supply to an organ) or necrotic (dead cells) regions which will require resectioning (surgical removal of part of the organ).

He was later diagnosed as having an ischemic stroke, which resulted in significant damage to his brain stem.

Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), brain damage that can result from the cutting off of oxygen to the brain as a whole

However, if the asphyxia persists the baby can develop hypoxic - ischemic encephalopathy, a type of brain damage that destroys tissue in the cerebral motor cortex and other areas of the brain.

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a condition which causes the newborn baby's brain cells to die due to lack of oxygen supply, causing permanent brain damage.

Asphyxia birth injuries, which are caused by a deprivation of oxygen to a fetus or newborn, are the most common type of birth injury and include cerebral palsy and HIE (hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy), both of which can result in lifelong damages.

A mini-stroke is also known as a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack) and presents the same symptoms as a full stroke, but the patient doesn't experience any permanent neurological damage.