Sentences with phrase «of ischemic injury»

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Landon was diagnosed with hypernatremic dehydration (a high concentration of sodium in the blood), cardiac arrest from hypovolemic shock (a condition where the liquid portion of the blood is dangerously low), and hypoxic - ischemic encephalopathy (a brain injury caused by oxygen deprivation).

Some autopsy data shows that infants of smokers have signs of established hypoxic - ischemic cellular injury in the brain and the heart which probably occurred in antenatal life, may have been caused by suboptimal placental function and may have been sub-clinical, but if the baby continues to be in a vulnerable environment exposed to post-natal passive smoking, this could affect autonomic nervous system function and lead to poor temperature control, and poor heart rate and respiration control.

Landon died of hypoxic - ischemic encephalopathy, or brain injury caused by oxygen deprivation; cardiac arrest; and hypernatremic dehydration, according to records from the Los Angeles County coroner.

James Mitchell, who studies stress resistance at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, was especially interested in ischemic reperfusion injury, a problem that often occurs with heart attacks and strokes, and sometimes even from heart and vascular surgery.

Published in Nature Medicine on May 1, 2017, the study demonstrates chronic ischemic hypoxia (lack of blood and oxygen) after spinal cord injury and how blood flow plays a key role in the cause and treatment of motor disorders.

In an earlier article, Jenkins showed that females with severe hypoxic ischemic injury benefit from a combination treatment of hypothermia and NAC, which provides the rate - limiting amino acid for the primary anti-oxidant in all cells.

Ischemic heart disease, stroke, low back and neck pain, road injuries, and COPD have also caused an increasing amount of health loss since 1990.

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.

Devereaux said this meant they could not clearly distinguish between patients with high pre-operative troponin T levels who developed ischemic injuries and those whose injuries were associated with high post-operative levels of troponin T.

Data from 3,904 patients who sustained myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery suggested that ischemic injury (i.e., an injury caused by a lack of oxygen) to heart tissue after non-cardiac surgery explained 24 percent of deaths in the first 30 days after surgery.

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.

The primary outcome is in - hospital mortality, and secondary outcomes include the complications of BSI such as septic shock, acute kidney injury (AKI), acute lung injury (ALI) / acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), ischemic liver injury, and a collapsed dependent variable of «poor clinical outcome» that is defined as the presence of any of the above complications.

Overall, MSCs can exert protective effects in ischemic reperfusion injuries through anti-inflammatory and paracrine factors and this likely plays an important part in MSC enhancement of allograft survival.

Dr. Semenza's research interests include the molecular mechanisms of oxygen homeostasis; gene and stem cell therapy for ischemic cardiovascular disease; the role of HIF - 1 in cancer; and protection of the heart against ischemia - reperfusion injury.

He studies the processes that regulate blood vessel function and response to injury, with emphasis on the role of lipid - lowering medications in preventing ischemic stroke, coronary artery disease, and heart failure.

TIM - 1 attenuates the protection of ischemic preconditioning for ischemia reperfusion injury in liver transplantation.

A failure of normal astrocyte generation by CNS precursor cells has been discovered to be a consequence of the mutations that cause Vanishing White Matter leukodystrophy [7], and dysfunction of astrocytes has also been suggested to be of importance in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [8], forebrain ischemic injury [9], epileptic seizures [10], Huntington's disease [11], tuberous sclerosis [12] and Rett syndrome [13].

Samples from other infants who experienced chronic hypoxic - ischemic injury and died in the hospital were collected from the autopsy service of the Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)- derived exosomes mediate tissue regeneration in a variety of diseases including ischemic heart injury, liver fibrosis, and cerebrovascular disease.

The gut microbiota can modulate the severity of cerebral ischemic injury through regulatory influences on IL - 17 — producing...

Ischemic stroke is the biggest reason for disability and also the 3rd biggest reason for death of the elderly in the US, while TBI (traumatic brain injury) is the biggest reason for disability and death in individuals younger than forty five.

Ischemic colitis (Ischaemic Colitis — British English) is a medical condition in which inflammation and injury of the large intestine result from inadequate blood supply.

A possible contributing factor for the cardio protective effects of intermittent fasting is increased levels of adiponectin, a hormone that exhibits both anti-athrogenic and insulin sensitizing effects and has been shown to protect cardiac myocytes against ischemic injury (44,45).

Now if we're dealing with people that have had TIAs, you know, transient ischemic attacks, strokes, brain trauma, car accident issues, football, sports - related injuries — yeah, it's very possible that the underlying issue is emanating from the brain and you may have to see a skilled chiropractic neurologist and have specific neurological stimulation on the brain, lasers on the brain that are parts of the brain that are inflamed or maybe there's a lesion in the brain because of inflammation.

Separating the effects of a hypoxic - ischemic insult from those of traumatic birth injury is difficult.

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.

Such asphyxia injuries include cerebral palsy and HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), both of which are brain injuries caused by a lack of oxygen to the fetus.