Sentences with phrase «often fatal heart»

He also has been involved in studies that evaluated a genetic marker for a heart disease affecting boxers and tested for a genetic mutation that causes an often fatal heart disease in cats.

These can damage the heart, causing serious and often fatal heart disease, as in humans with severe peridontitis, and also harm the kidneys, pancreas, liver, and other internal organs.

Serious and often fatal heart disease is the result.

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Unlike heart attacks, which primarily strike older people and are often survivable, cardiac arrest is 100 % fatal if left untreated.

Some cases do progress, though, and they may cause debilitating and almost untreatable soft - tissue infections like cellulitis and folliculitis, pneumonia, and often - fatal heart infections, or endocarditis.

The study offers new data in an ongoing debate over the risks and benefits of using epinephrine to treat cardiac arrest, an often - fatal condition in which the heart stops beating.

Although this crippling, fatal disease is not discussed as often as cancer or heart disease, this particular condition attacks the lungs with thick mucus, as well as the pancreas.

If left untreated, it can also cause deadly heart arrhythmias, hemorrhaging, labored breathing, and even sepsis, which is often fatal.

In more serious — but fortunately, less common — cases, dogs can develop a type of kidney disease called Lyme nephritis, which is often fatal, even in young, healthy dogs, as well as myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — and neurological disease.

The symptoms of heart disease can often be lowered with medication, but once diagnosed, the disease itself is almost always fatal.

In some cases, heartworms in cats migrate in tissues with no harm and, in other cases they infect the heart and major arteries which feed the lungs, causing significant and often fatal disease.