Sentences with phrase «vessel damage to the lungs»

Currently available drugs can modestly improve symptoms and exercise capacity (at best), but can not repair the blood vessel damage to the lungs or cure the disease.

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A chronic inflammatory process is when some sort of trigger (pollen, food particles, etc) initiates a strong inflammatory process that causes collateral damage to other tissues of the body such as the gut lining, blood vessels, the sinuses, the lungs, the joints, etc..

Heartworms are a parasite that can cause severe damage to the heart, lungs, and blood vessels of your pet.

The lungs actually sustain the most damage from heartworms due to the irritation of the lining of the pulmonary blood vessels which will be discussed more in the following pages.

These puppy worms live in the right side of the heart and adjoining vessels of infected dogs and can cause substantial damage to the heart and lungs before any symptoms become visible.

Less common signs of heartworm infection include vomiting, neurologic signs, collapse and sudden death.9 Many cats are able to overcome this phase of the disease process — and in some cases completely clear the heartworm infection — but not without damaging the small blood vessels in the lungs during the process.6, 7

They can live for 5 - 7 years in the dog and cause severe damage to the heart, lungs, and blood vessels which can lead to lung disease, heart failure, and other organ failure.

Parasites of such considerable size located in such a vital area do very serious damage, not only to the heart but also to the lungs and the surrounding major blood vessels.

[1] The parasite is commonly called «heartworm»; however, adults often reside in the pulmonary arterial system (lung arteries), as well as the heart, and a major effect on the health for the animal is a manifestation of damage to the lung vessels and tissues.

The presence of heartworms causes extensive damage to the heart, the lungs, and the surrounding major blood vessels.

Untreated, heartworms damage the tissues and blood vessels of the lungs and eventually lead to death from congestive heart failure.

Heartworm treatment generally causes problems in the lungs, via the damage to the blood vessels that supply them (the pulmonary arteries).

Heartworms are parasites that live in the heart and vessels of the lungs causing scarring and long - term damage to the heart and lungs.

After medication is given to kill adult heartworms (called an adulticide), the death of the heartworms can result in severe damage to the lung capillaries (small blood vessels in the lungs) and loss of blood to the air sacs (alveoli).

Over several months, the worms migrate to the vital blood vessels of the heart and lungs where they grow to be the size of spaghetti and cause considerable damage.

«These parasites cause irreversible permanent damage to the blood vessels in the heart and lungs,» explains Ernie Ward, DVM, CVFT.

Heartworms live in the heart, lungs and blood vessels of affected animals, causing severe lung disease, heart failure and damage to other organs.

Heartworm disease involves severe damage to the lungs and heart and causes a variety of consequences including pulmonary emboli (clots that cutoff blood flow to the lungs), heart failure, pulmonary hypertension (elevated blood pressure of the lung vessels), multiple organ system failure, and even death.

The damage to the lung blood vessels from the worms, creates extra resistance for the heart to pump against and often episodes of collapse occur with exercise.

Adult heartworms live 2 - 3 years in the cat and can cause damage to the cat's heart, lungs, and blood vessels, leading to heart failure, lung disease, and other organ failure.

Additionally, chest x-rays can check for lung damage caused by heartworms, and an ultrasound may be able to visually reveal the presence of heartworms in a cat's heart or pulmonary blood vessels.

This then causes physical damage to the heart, lungs, and associated blood vessels.

An advanced heartworm infection means that the heartworms have been present long enough to cause substantial damage to the heart, lungs, blood vessels, kidneys and liver.

By their physical presence, they cause harm in two ways: they block the normal forward flow of blood, causing an excessive workload on the heart, and they also damage the inner lining of the blood vessels, which gives rise to blood clots that cut off circulation to parts of the lungs.

Because these worms live inside the blood vessels, adult worms can cause severe damage to the heart, lungs and associated vascular structures.