Sentences with phrase «lymphatic disease»

During a routine physical we are evaluating body condition, looking for eye or ear problems, dental disease, abnormal heart or lung sounds, changes in abdominal organs or belly pain, musculoskeletal and neurologic conditions, urogenital disease, skin and haircoat conditions and lymphatic disease.

To this end his lab currently oversees three NIH - funded clinical trials that focus on biomarker development in cerebrovascular and lymphatic diseases.

But, which are the Lymphatic diseases?

Not exact matches

«When my first - born son, James, was five months old I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a malignant disease of the lymphatic system.

1) African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, Dengue, Leishmaniasis, Leprosy, Lymphatic filariasis, Malaria, Onchocerciasis, Schistosomiasis, and Tuberculosis.

While medications currently exist to treat lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, the two main diseases caused by filarial nematodes, the drugs are insufficient to eliminate the diseases by 2020 and researchers project that resistance will arise to some of the drugs.

With our human gut - on - a-chip, we can not only culture the normal gut microbiome for extended times, but we can also analyze contributions of pathogens, immune cells, and vascular and lymphatic endothelium, as well as model specific diseases to understand complex pathophysiological responses of the intestinal tract.»

The point for PANS: In diseases of autoimmunity, where rogue immune cells are stuck in the brain, returning these lymphatic vessels to greater function may be a potent means of clearing up disease.

On Monday, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to William Campbell of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and AAAS member Satoshi Ōmura of Kitasato University in Tokyo, who will share half the prize for discovering the drug avermectin, which has been used to treat river blindness and lymphatic filariasis as well as other parasitic diseases.

Urbanization and the resulting shrinkage of green spaces in cities can be considered a boon for mosquitoes that transmit diseases, such as Aedes aegypti (dengue) and Culex quinquefasciatus (lymphatic filariasis).

The current study is a retrospective review of imaging and medical records of eight patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) with elevated central venous pressure complicated by PLE who underwent lymphatic imaging and interventions at CHOP.

(MDA has long been used for lymphatic filariasis and other parasitic diseases but has a checkered history with malaria.)

Nearly half of all blood cancer cases are lymphomas, or cancers of the lymphatic system, of which there are numerous unique disease subtypes.

That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis.

The unexpected presence of the lymphatic vessels raises a tremendous number of questions that now need answers, both about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it.

Collectively known as neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, these illnesses include leprosy, rabies, blinding trachoma and lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis).

The center has aided efforts to combat HIV / ADS, malaria, cholera, cryptic liver disease, plague, measles, lymphatic filarisis, and polio.

In 2002, the Centers for Disease Control investigated several clusters of acute lymphatic leukemia in both Nevada and Arizona.

Mechanical forces in lymphatic vascular development and disease.

Modulating ECM assembly to alter tumor vascular barrier function Weilan Ye, Genentech Lymphangiogenesis and lymphatic endothelial barrier as targets in regenerative medicine Giorgia Jurisic, Novartis Wnt / beta - catenin signaling as a therapeutic target for blood - brain barrier repair in neurological disorders Dritan Agalliu, Columbia University Somatic mutations in hematopoietic cells contribute to cardiovascular disease: New mechanisms, new targets Kenneth Walsh, Boston University

GAHI shows the geographical distribution of neglected tropical diseases transmitted by worms: soil - transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis.

In 1998, Merck expanded the program to include the elimination of another disease, lymphatic filariasis.

In spite of the fact that your lymphatic system is of indispensable importance to virtually every cell in your body — especially when it comes to issues of infection and disease — practitioners of Western medicine tend to overlook it.

Dr. Oz refers to lymphatics as «the next frontier of discovery in human disease... long ignored because of their subtlety and complexity.»

The lymphatic system is, in fact, integral to our resistance to disease.

Eating an anti-inflammatory diet is not only beneficial for removing toxic build up in your lymphatic system, but it also reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease and obesity.

Eliminating sugar and processed foods and adding nutrient dense foods and supplements to your arsenal of weapons against disease, and also a thorough treatment of detox activities (colon — which is directly related to your sinuses, intestinal, kidney, liver / gallbladder, lymphatic, blood, and skin) will get you back on track.

The Lymphatic System is a very delicate system of capillaries, vessels and nodes that can be impaired by several factors including: stress, diseases, infection, flu, surgeries, air travel, extreme cold, medication, dehydration, excessive intake of protein, and sedentary lifestyle.

Balancing your nervous system, getting your inflammation in check, increasing your detoxification and lymphatic systems efficiency - these are all benefits that are essential for ALL psoriatic disease.

Our lymphatic system plays a huge role in our health by helping to ward off disease and help us heal from injury.

«Knowing more about the Lymphatic System will bring answers to a broad array of diseases that historically nobody would have said are specifically lLymphatic System will bring answers to a broad array of diseases that historically nobody would have said are specifically lymphaticlymphatic.

I am beyond thrilled to say that we now scientifically know that brain diseases (Alzheimer's, MS, and also Auto Immune Diseases) may be connected to a poor function of the Lymphatic System!!

But, is the Lymphatic System the root cause of diseases?

Lymphedema is a chronic disease caused by impaired Lymphatic System.

You'll know more about the importance of this powerful system and how the Lymphatic System is the origin of plenty of diseases.

I'm now in the NLN conference to help bring more awareness to the diseases of the Lymphatic System.

Because physicians are not trained in the lymph landscape, they can not trace some diseases to their true origin — the Lymphatic System.

Cancer information and prevention with ellagic acid Cancer: a malignant neoplastic disease -(any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream).

Detoxify the body by optimizing organ function and improving the flow of the cardiovascular and lymphatic system to carry away dead and diseased tissue and rid the body of waste and toxins.

But, now we understand that there are lymphatic implications certainly to cancer and its way of spreading..., to a variety of immune diseases, arthritis, chronic infection, inflammation,....

For example, I just found out what one of the nation's leading heart surgeons (he was on the team that performed the first successful heart transplant in the US) thinks about the link between the lymphatic system and cardiovascular disease.

The lymphatic system is a complex system of ducts and nodes that drains toxins from muscles, while delivering antibodies to help fight disease.

The lymphatic system is a defense mechanism against infection, viruses, bacteria and disease.

The lymphatic system is comprised of your lymph nodes, spleen, thymus and the system of vessels that carry protective fluids throughout your body, guarding it from disease.

1951 Vitamin D treatment is found to be effective against Hodgkin's disease (a cancer of the lymphatic system) and epithelioma.

Lymphocytes are your immune system's disease - fighting cells and are produced and stored mainly in your lymphatic tissue17 (thymus gland, spleen, and lymph nodes).

The lack of good gut bacteria results in many allergic and autoimmune diseases — the gut wall becomes «leaky» and allows foreign molecules directly across into the local lymphatics and blood stream, which causes an intense local immune reaction.

Possible causes of chylothorax include anterior mediastinal masses (mediastinal lymphosarcoma, thymoma), heart disease (cardiomyopathy, heartworm disease, congenital cardiac diseases, etc.), fungal granulomas, congenital abnormalities of the thoracic duct, and diffuse lymphatic abnormalities.

It is most often a consequence of one or more intestinal diseases including inflammatory bowel disease, lymphoma and lymphangiectasia (dilation of intestinal lymphatics).

Course of the disease: Lundehunds are born with apparently normal intestinal systems, but with time something in their system causes inflammatory cells to build up in the intestinal walls and this causes the lymphatic vessels (which normally absorb proteins from the intestines) to clog up and ooze protein / lymph into the intestines.