Sentences with phrase «of damage to the lung»

[1] The parasite is commonly called «heartworm»; however, adults often reside in the pulmonary arterial system (lung arteries), as well as the heart, and a major effect on the health for the animal is a manifestation of damage to the lung vessels and tissues.

Although the vaccine may not prevent infection altogether, it significantly reduces the severity and duration of clinical illness, including the incidence and severity of damage to the lungs.

Will any of the damage to the lungs heal over time?

X-rays might also be utilized to determine the stage of infection and extent of the damage to the lungs and airways.

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.

The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that the talc or cornstarch in baby powder can also be harmful to babies because they can breathe in the tiny particles in the powder, damaging their lungs.

If high levels of triclosan are stored in your body, it can damage your liver, kidneys and lungs and possibly lead to heart problems and brain hemorrhages.

The average triplet is born two months premature, significantly raising the risk of disabilities such as cerebral palsy and of lifelong damage to the infant's lungs, eyes, brain and other organs.

Ultrasound at diagnostic levels has been shown to produce lung damage and focal haemorrhage in a number of mammalian species.

It causes lung damage, ensures difficulty breathing, leads to a build - up of tar inside our system.

Even going outside for a cigarette isn't enough, and even small amounts of second - hand smoke can be very damaging to your baby's small lungs.

It may stunt the physical and mental growth of your baby and can cause considerable damage to the developing lungs, brain, liver, nervous system, kidneys and red blood cells in your baby.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it, causing inflammation that often results in serious damage to bones, joints and tendons, and can also affect internal organs like the heart, eyes and lungs.

«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.

A protracted legal battle over an $ 11.5 - million health study into whether diesel exhaust damages the lungs of miners has suddenly widened to take on scientific peer review.

Results of a new study find sleep deprivation causes the damage to cells, especially in the liver, lung, and small intestine.

She found that kids in Fresno were more likely to develop asthma not due to lung damage, but because changes on the surfaces of just two genes — and likely more — altered the way their lungs worked.

Although further research is needed to improve our understanding of how MSCs repair this damage, these findings suggest a promising role for MSC therapy in treating patients with chronic lung disease.

«Potential of stem cell therapy to repair lung damage.»

As well as reducing inflammation in the lung, MSC therapy also resulted in significant improvements in lung structure, suggesting that this form of treatment has the potential to repair the damaged lung.

Carbonaceous PM is made up of black carbon, primary organic aerosol (POA) and, especially, secondary organic aerosol (SOA), which is known to contain harmful reactive oxygen species and can damage lung tissue.

«These lung breakdown products have never been identified in TB before, and have the potential to be used as new markers to identify patients with TB and monitor the effect of new treatments on lung damage.

And clinicians working with anorexics have reported that after a decade or two, those with partial or subthreshold forms of the disorder — who maintain a diet some have compared to calorie restriction — show a failure to thrive, with damage to hearts, lungs and other organs.

«That way, appropriate tests can be administered to diagnose COPD early, at the onset of symptoms, so that effective treatments for COPD can be initiated before irreversible damage to the lungs occurs.»

«We feared that such chemicals, by steadily causing a little damage to the airways day after day, year after year, might accelerate the rate of lung function decline that occurs with age.»

Radovitzky says this reasoning stems from studies of «blast lung» — blast - induced injuries such as tearing, hemorrhaging, and swelling of the lungs, where it was found that mass matters: The larger an animal is, the more resilient it may be to lung damage.

But, he notes, «with all infections, part of the concern is that the inflammatory response can become too exuberant, which leads to tissue damage, as in septic shock,» and lung failure.

«The virus penetrates more deeply into the lungs of obese mice, and the animals seem to have a more difficult time repairing the damage,» Schultz - Cherry said.

Although some experts say it takes longer than the short duration of the Olympics to build up irreversible lung and cardiovascular damage, others think that any extreme exertion in really bad conditions will cause irreparable harm.

Their approach is to combine the study of cells isolated from TB - infected patients with micro-engineering in 3D in the laboratory to investigate how TB damages the lungs.

They will then use HySP to create what amounts to a fluorescent map and compare it with that of healthy lung tissue to see if they can discern the damage.

One expert sports consultant told Runner's World, «I predict that you will see some of the stars of Beijing take a dive the next year [due to lung damage].»

But the other report, published by the Ministry of Defence in March, did acknowledge that troops could have inhaled DU dust in the Gulf and that this «could theoretically lead to damage to lung tissue and subsequently to a raised probability of lung cancer some years later».

Professor Mary Morrell, co-principal investigator of the study from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, said: «Sleep apnoea can be hugely damaging to patients» quality of life and increase their risk of road accidents, heart disease and other conditions.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the process of manufacturing glass not only contributes its share of greenhouse gas emissions but also generates nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and tiny particulates that can damage lung tissue when breathed in.

This leads to recurrent life - threatening lung infections, which result in lung damage that causes 90 % of deaths in people with cystic fibrosis.

Beyond the intestinal applications, the researchers are also studying the use of hydrogels to deliver organoids to damaged kidneys and lungs.

By contrast, environments that imitate the inside of a uterus continue delivering oxygen to the fetus via the umbilical cord, or directly into the arteries, which could avoid the lung damage.

Warning: Smoking permanently damages genes Heavy smoking may trigger long - lasting changes in gene activity, possibly explaining the persistently higher risk of lung cancer and disease in those who kick the habit, according to a new study.

Oral exposure to cadmium can lead to kidney damage, while inhaling it can damage lungs or raise the risk of lung cancer.

The work, appearing online Nov. 17 in the journal Nature, provides a possible explanation for how one type of DNA damage may lead to cancer, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular and lung disease, and Alzheimer's disease.

In work published in The EMBO Journal, the researchers reveal that the delivery of mitochondria to human lung cells can rejuvenate damaged cells.

If this type of therapy proves safe in humans, a syringe full of oxygen microbubbles could help avert brain damage and death for the victims of cardiac arrest, asthma attacks, strokes, and injuries to the lungs, airway, or face.

That suggests that the damage done to the lungs is the result of an overreaction of the host, rather than the virus killing cells, Kash says.

«The introduction of mitochondria into damaged cells has beneficial effects on the health of cells and, in the long term, we believe that mesenchymal stem cells could even be engineered to create more effective therapies for lung disease in humans.»

If large numbers of white blood cells get into the lungs or kidneys, or into transplanted organs, they can cause damage to healthy tissue.

CPR essentially consists of a pattern of chest compressions and rescue breaths (i.e. artificial blood circulation and lung ventilation) and is intended to maintain a trickle of oxygenated blood to the brain and the heart and thereby extend the otherwise brief window of opportunity for successfully restarting the heart without permanent brain damage.

The stem cells that proliferate the most in response to damage caused by cigarette smoke repair their DNA using a process prone to errors, setting the stage for lung cancer, according to a study publishing January 26, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS Biology by Marie - Liesse Asselin - Labat and her team of the Walter and Eliza hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia.

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Our investigations on human cell lines in the laboratory have shown that synthetic cannabinoids, in the high concentrations found in cells in the oral cavity or in the lungs, for example, are likely to trigger damage to the DNA that may have significant consequences for the consumers of such substances.