Sentences with phrase «of lung damage»

This, along with Doxycycline (an antibiotic) and maybe a steroid - type medication, helps reduce the risk of lung damage complications that can be associated with dead worms.

(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.

New research suggests that cyclists are at increased risk of lung damage because of soot.

The treatment reduced symptoms and moderately mitigated the impact of the lung damage.

This process creates a great deal of lung damage similar to bronchitis, which can worsen existing lung disease and make breathing difficult.

Not exact matches

Why and how smoking causes lung cancer - carcinogens from the smoke damage DNA of the lungs.

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.

You shouldn't ignore the persistent hiccups in your child, since this can be a symptom of brain damage; various diseases of the stomach, liver or lungs; injuries of the spinal cord and the chest.

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.

On Oct. 13, Price was kicked and punched repeatedly in the middle of the street after buying cigarettes at a 24 - hour deli on College Point Boulevard around 4:30 a.m., He suffered a fractured jaw and ribs, a damaged lung and a lacerated spleen.

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.

In human terms, the costs of lives and families damaged by heart disease, strokes, cancer and lung disease are incalculable.

E-cigarette vapors also «produced mild effects on the lungs, including inflammation and protein damage,» notes Thomas Sussan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, lead author of the study, published February 4 in PLOS ONE.

A study in the journal Science Translational Medicine details a new procedure for making damaged, donated lungs functional, potentially doubling the number of lungs available for transplant.

«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.»

You could argue that if tobacco companies had a monopoly on lung health research, it's possible that the damaging effects of tobacco smoke would not have come out as quickly.

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.»

Drinking alcohol has a variety of damaging effects on the immune system and organs — like the gut, liver and lung — which can be worsened by pre-existing conditions as well as consumption of prescription and over-the-counter medications that aged individuals often take.

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.

Another team member, Paul Cullinan of the National Heart and Lung Hospitals in London, says: «Quite a high proportion of those examined by us certainly had lung damage almost ten years after the evLung Hospitals in London, says: «Quite a high proportion of those examined by us certainly had lung damage almost ten years after the evlung damage almost ten years after the event.

In lung tissue, damage repair means a buildup of scar tissue, which compromises the lung.

The treated animals also had lower amounts of virus and less severe tissue damage in the lungs.

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.

Oxidative damage accompanies most, if not all, diseases and has even been proposed as a direct cause of some including lung cancer, atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's.

Mice who couldn't produce CHI3L1 / BRP -39, had acute lung cell damage, somewhat like AE patients who have a relative deficiency of CHI3L1.

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.

Copeland's team also noted that these mice suffered from a host of immune - related problems, the most crippling being a flood of macrophages — a type of white blood cell — damaging the lungs and other organs.

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.