Sentences with phrase «organ failure in»

Ethoxyquin came under scrutiny in the 1990s after complaints of skin allergies, reproductive problems, cancer, and organ failure in some dogs given food with this preservative.

The toxic agent is colchicine (toxic to rapidly dividing cells); the roots or tubers may contain enough toxins to cause serious multi-system organ failure in cats and dogs that chew on them.

We couldn't say for sure whether stress from the procedure could have contributed to organ failure in your kitty.

About 90 % of corn is genetically modified — which causes tumors and organ failure in rats.

Steve Owen's father Donald died in 2007 of multiple organ failure in hospital.

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The primary endpoint is the response in mean arterial blood, or MAP, at hour three, and among the secondary endpoints was CV Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, or SOFA, score at hour 48.

He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.»

In her view, a lot of the talk about «the seminary's failure to address the church» fails to understand that the seminary is an organ of the church, just as the congregation is.

• The definition of torture has been reinterpreted by the Justice Department as follows: «Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.»

Two days after the birth, in unrelated circumstances, I became critically ill with septicemia, which led to multiple organ failure, and I had a large open abdominal wound from emergency surgery.

So users may embark on the slow death of addiction or death from stroke heart attack or other organ failure and the number of overdose deaths involving methamphetamine have doubled in just two years,» said Jaquith.

From my perspective, which lies closer to Council Communism, this is substituting an organ organised along bourgeois lines for workers» self - activity and dooms social action to failure in revolutionary terms.1

They also knew that the virus interferes with blood clotting, which leads to bleeding and, in many cases, multiple organ failure.

But the No. 1 cause of death in people who are starving is heart failure due to extreme tissue and organ damage.

So far those efforts have ended in failure, usually with the person's immune system rejecting the transplanted animal organ.

«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

As it circulates, the toxin can attack the kidneys, invade the brain, and — in the most extreme cases — bring on multiple organ failure and death.

For example, in 2006, six people enrolled in a UK trial of the drug TGN1412 were hospitalised after developing multiple organ failure.

Symptoms may include diarrhoea, failure to thrive (in children) and fatigue, but these may be absent and associated symptoms in all other organ systems have been described.

The team challenged a highly infectious and pathogenic bacterium called Pseudomonas aeruginosa — which flourishes in medical equipment, such as catheters, and causes inflammation, sepsis and organ failure — with both the traditional drugs and eCAPs in the lab.

Mitochondrial defects are often observed in a variety of diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, and are the hallmarks of a number of genetic mitochondrial disorders whose manifestations range from muscle weakness to organ failure.

These misshapen cells get stuck in blood vessels, causing blockages, anemia, pain, organ failure and significantly shortened lifespan.

While the inflammatory immune response is essential to protecting humans against viruses and bacteria, superantigen toxins cause an exaggerated response called an «immune storm» that can do a great deal of damage in the body and can result in multiple organ failure.

A weakening of the heart muscle that prevents the organ's efficient operation, heart failure affects around 5.7 million adults in the U.S., and about 40 percent of those hospitalized for heart failure exacerbation are obese, the authors note.

To prevent transplant rejection in patients with end - stage organ failure, a lifelong regimen of immune - suppressing drugs is almost always required.

About a third of the population is at risk for anemia, which can cause neurocognitive deficits in children, organ failure and less serious effects such as chronic fatigue.

Complications included in morbidity were: superficial, deep or organ space surgical site infection; failure to wean; pneumonia; renal complications; urinary tract infection; cardiac complications; and vein thrombosis / pulmonary embolism.

Patients with kidney failure — often the result of diabetes and high blood pressure — can die within days from the buildup of toxins in the bloodstream and the bloating of organs.

The symptoms include fever, vomiting and, in 5 per cent of cases, lethal organ failure.

Tests in mice and nonhuman primates had shown TGN1412 to be safe, but when it was injected into humans — in a dose less than 1/500 of what was given to monkeys — it caused a massive release of infection - fighting T cells that overstimulated the patients» immune systems, resulting in multiple organ failure.

Acute - on - chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a sudden deterioration of the liver function in a patient with liver cirrhosis accompanied by failure of one or more organ systems.

Unlike other organs, they are continually exposed to bacteria, viruses and everything else in the environment, and we think this increases the risk of chronic rejection and the eventual failure of the organ.»

Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end - stage renal failure.

Then six men taking part in a clinical trial had severe reactions to a monoclonal antibody resulting in organ failure.

That's according to a study in the British Journal of Pharmacology: Most deaths related to ecstasy use a [re caused by] a related overheating that causes organ failure.

In a study in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Halade and colleagues looked at functional and structural changes of the three organs at four time points: one day and five days after heart attack, which is the acute heart failure period in the mouse model, and 28 days and 56 days after heart attack, which is the chronic heart failure perioIn a study in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Halade and colleagues looked at functional and structural changes of the three organs at four time points: one day and five days after heart attack, which is the acute heart failure period in the mouse model, and 28 days and 56 days after heart attack, which is the chronic heart failure perioin the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Halade and colleagues looked at functional and structural changes of the three organs at four time points: one day and five days after heart attack, which is the acute heart failure period in the mouse model, and 28 days and 56 days after heart attack, which is the chronic heart failure perioin the mouse model, and 28 days and 56 days after heart attack, which is the chronic heart failure period.

Over time, these streaks accumulate into plaques which may completely block off blood flow or break apart, resulting in organ failure or may trigger a heart attack or stroke.

The authors also showed that children who tested positive for high - risk sepsis but survived the infection (21 percent of study patients) had greater degrees of organ failure and longer stays in the intensive care unit.

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element that can cause organ failure and cancer in humans with prolonged exposure above established health thresholds.

In the long term, the scar tissue can lead to organ failure and eventually death.

In some cases, these tumours may be benign, but in others, they can spread throughout the body — or «metastasise» — where they can cause organ failurIn some cases, these tumours may be benign, but in others, they can spread throughout the body — or «metastasise» — where they can cause organ failurin others, they can spread throughout the body — or «metastasise» — where they can cause organ failure.

Our work has implications for two human genetic diseases, which are caused by mutations in the ATP7B and ATP7A genes and lead to copper overload in the liver (Wilson Disease), due to the failure to excrete copper into the bile, and copper deficiency in many organs (Menkes Disease), due to the failure to deliver intestinal copper to the blood.

When this swelling occurs in the liver, the primary target of HCV, it can result in an overall fattening of the organ (called steatosis), leading years later to cirrhosis and liver failure.

It has different causes — including heart attacks, sepsis and internal bleeding — and often results in multiple organ failure.

Researchers suggest that this liver tissue could be used in place of donor organs during liver transplantation or during the bridge period until a suitable donor is available for patients with acute liver failure.

This was dangerous in the youngest mice, leading to early death due to failure of a digestive organ called the pancreas.

With key strengths in advanced medical imaging, cell biology, genomics, immunology and stem cell biology, our scientists and their skilled staff conduct research on some of the most debilitating diseases of our time: heart disease and stroke, Alzheimer's, cancer, organ failure, diabetes and many others.

Hormonal signaling ensures this organ - to - organ communication, and the failure of endocrine regulation in humans can cause diseases including obesity and diabetes.

Freedman, B. I., et al. «Apolipoprotein L1 gene variants in deceased organ donors are associated with renal allograft failure.»

Mitochondrial defects are often observed in a variety of diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, and are the hallmarks of a number of untreatable genetic mitochondrial disorders whose manifestations range from muscle weakness to organ failure.