Sentences with phrase «of lung failure»
It's packed with nutrients, but the raw leaves have been linked to outbreaks of lung failure.
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That's not just because of Opdivo's failure — last month, Keytruda was shown to be better than standard chemotherapy in untreated advanced lung cancer patients with high levels of the PD - L1 protein, both stopping cancer progression and extending patients» lives.
And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.
His body was so decomposed that tests were inconclusive — officially, he died of lung congestion and heart failure — but circumstantial evidence suggests that he died of a heroin overdose.
This test can show whether the heart is enlarged or whether the lungs have extra blood flow or extra fluid, a sign of heart failure.
In rare cases, failure to gain weight can turn out to be a result of a lung problem, such as cystic fibrosis; a nervous system problem, such as cerebral palsy; a chromosome problem, such as Down syndrome; heart disease; anemia; or a metabolic or an endocrine disorder, such as growth hormone deficiency.
Two unique clinical features of heart failure in children, say the guidelines» authors, are the possible coexistence of structural congenital heart lesions, with simultaneous over-circulation to the lungs, and under - perfusion to the body (when the two circulations are linked in parallel by an intracardiac shunt or a patent arterial duct); and a change in symptom complexes over time from infancy through adolescence.
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.
Many lung cancer trials have traditionally excluded patients with brain metastases at baseline, expecting that the presence of metastases would create negative results that could in turn create the appearance of drug failure.
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.
Dr. Axel Heller from the department of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine also gets dedicated research time — one week out of four, he can devote himself to his research, which mainly focuses on the problem of acute lung failure.?
Findings from the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.
While HAP typically is a less - severe infection, half of patients have serious complications, including respiratory failure, fluid in the lungs, septic shock and kidney failure.
Pulmonary hypertension involves an increase of blood pressure in the arteries of the lung that can lead to heart failure.
People with two copies of the mutated gene are eight times more likely to avoid severe sepsis, which leads to kidney, gut, lung, and liver failure.
Common causes of pulmonary hypertension include congestive heart failure, other heart diseases, birth defects of the heart, chronic lung disease, obstructive sleep apnea, and certain autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis.
The infantile onset form of the disease is the most severe, with untreated patients experiencing significant heart and lung failure by the second year of life.
The researchers found that the addition of vitamin D3 to ciclesonide did not significantly reduce the rate of first treatment failure (a composite outcome of decline in lung function and increases in use of beta - agonists, systemic steroids, and health care utilization) compared with placebo; 28 percent and 29 percent of participants in each group, respectively, experienced at least 1 treatment failure during 28 weeks.
«Study finds cause of pulmonary fibrosis in failure of stem cells that repair lungs.»
In cases of PVOD, the small veins in the lungs become blocked, increasing pressure in these blood vessels, and ultimately causing heart failure.
«Historically, when treating early lung cancer with radiotherapy, progression at the site of the primary tumor was the most common failure resulting in suffering and death,» said lead study author Robert Timmerman, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
They usually die of heart failure or lung disease, so delivering dystrophin to the skeletal muscles — even if that were possible — would not help much.
Fibrotic diseases, such as chronic kidney disease and failure, lung disease, heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver, are estimated to be responsible for up to 45 percent of deaths in the developed world.
As nutritional failure plays a role in the outcomes of many of pediatric lung diseases, I am also interested in how the GI microbiota impact early growth and nutrition.
A Phase II Single - Arm Trial to Investigate Tepotinib in advanced (Stage IIIB / IV) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with MET Exon 14 (METex14) Skipping Alterations After Failure of at Least One Prior Active Therapy, Including a Platinum - Doublet - Containing Regimen
Other projects around developmental vascular biology study the mechanisms of closure of the ductus arteriosus as failure of ductus arteriosus (DA) closure after birth is a common complication of premature delivery with consequences for the developing lung and other organs.
According to The Ohio State University, over half of all patients who are treated for heart failure end up back in the hospital within six months, due to fluid buildup in their lungs.
The HARP study showed that 80 mg of simvastatin administered acutely to patients with acute lung injury showed significant improvements in organ failure scores, suggesting that statins modulate the systemic inflammation after only a short duration of treatment [17].
Rushed to a nearby hospital, Tom was subjected to multiple surgeries addressing the condition, an aortic type dissection, and its many rippled effects, which included partial kidney and lung failure, the left lower extremity ischemia, and the eventual amputation of his left leg.»
Some victims may contract a second infection while already battling the flu, like pneumonia (an infection of the air sacs of the lungs), which can be severe enough to lead to organ failure and ultimately death, Dr. Salber says.
The father - of - two — he's expecting a third baby with former Miss Arizona U.S.A. Brittany Bell — opened up about his health problems in 2012, after he was hospitalized for kidney failure and, later, hospitalized again with blood clots in his lungs.
In addition to risk of problems involving lung function, selenium deficiency has been shown to increase our risk of heart failure and other forms of cardiovascular disease, as well as for other problems including type 2 diabetes, compromised cognitive function, and depression.
Fluid retention typically manifested as swollen ankles, but sometimes progressed to frank heart failure — fluid accumulation in the lungs causing shortness of breath.
Twelve - inch - long worms (look like spaghetti) live in the heart, lungs and blood vessels of infected pets, causing lung disease, heart failure, organ damage and can be fatal if untreated.
Signs of heart failure, lung tumors, and even choking in a dog will include heavy panting, breathing difficulty, and coughing.
But veterinarians who believe that brachycephalic dogs suffer more from heart issues suggest that a deficiency of oxygen over time (chronic hypoxia) causes blood channels in the lungs to narrow (pulmonary vasoconstriction) which then leads to increased blood pressure within the heart (pulmonary hypertension), a known risk for heart failure.
This is a common finding in dogs with severe heart disease as a result of fluid building up in or around the lungs (see Congestive Heart Failure).
In addition to these difficulties, less efficient blood pumping may also lead to a backup of blood to the other chambers of the heart and to the lungs, which may contribute to the development of congestive heart failure or the formation of blood clots in the heart.
If pressures on the left side of the heart become significantly high as a result of increased blood volume, left - sided congestive heart failure or pulmonary edema (fluid within the lungs) can result.
This may occur in dogs with severe heart disease as a result of fluid building up in or around the lungs (a condition known as Congestive Heart Failure).
Congestive heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to pump an adequate amount of blood, causing an increase in pressure and fluid that eventually leaks out into the lungs or elsewhere.
The primary goals of treating congestive heart failure are to reduce this buildup of fluid and to increase the amount of blood being pumped by the heart to the lungs and the rest of the body.
Heartworm can cause devastating disease, their presence in the heart and arteries of the lungs can result in coughing, decreased exercise and in severe cases, congestive heart failure.
Treatment goals include controlling the heart rate, alleviating lung congestion (congestive heart failure), and preventing the formation of blood clots that can lead to thromboembolism.
Finally, the lungs are assessed, looking for evidence of changes associated with heart failure.
If beating slightly alters while breathing in and out, this can be caused by an unfamiliar environment or momentary stress; however, abnormalities, including a speedy or sluggish pulse, can indicate anemia, lung disease, pressure on the brain, or a failure of circulation.
Inflammation becomes generalized and can cause lung damage, kidney damage, inflammation of the heart muscle, organ failure, shock and death.
According to veterinary cardiologists at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the primary goals of treating congestive heart failure (caused by mitral insufficiency) are to reduce the buildup of fluid and to increase the amount of blood being pumped by the heart to the lungs and the rest of the body.
Dr. Jones said he would like to see further investigation into the pathology of heartworm infection, particularly into why the disease manifests in various clinical signs in dogs, which can have coughing, lung inflammation, or congestive heart failure, or why they can have no clinical signs at all.
Pulmonary edema (congestive heart failure) is fluid in the lungs, and is a serious end consequence of cardiomyopathy.