Sentences with phrase «weakened heart»

While in Switzerland, «where plunges in the snow were part of the program to build physical endurance, [Müller] developed rheumatic fever which severely weakened his heart.»

Early in this condition, placing the pet on the diuretic, furosemide, eliminates the cough and improves the function of a weakened heart.

There is a small chance that fluid therapy could have been too much for a weakened heart but if so, it was still not wrong to try it, since it was the only viable choice for long term treatment success.

It is the end result of a progressively weakened heart muscle and is one of the most serious medical conditions affecting domestic dogs.

Heart failure, also known as congestive heart failure, is the end result of a progressively weakened heart muscle and almost always is ultimately fatal.

Taurine deficiency can cause serious health problems in cats, including cardiomyopathy (or weakened heart muscle disease), reproductive disorders, and retinal degeneration and blindness.

It increases the amount of blood that the weakened heart can pump by giving more strength to its muscle fibers.

The rhythm of a weakened heart also changes.

Cardiomyopathy: a disease of weakened heart muscles.

If heart failure is present, diuretics will be needed to relieve extra fluid from the circulation and ease the burden on the weakened heart.

NHV Hearty Heart may help with overall heart function and blood pressure, which contain herbs like motherwort and hops that help to strengthen a weakened heart.

Heart disease such as weakened heart muscle, pericarditis, bradycardia, arrhythmias, heart block, and tachycardia can also lead to low blood pressure as the heart is unable to maintain the stroke volume to supply adequate blood flow to the body.

Low or Negative HRV can be a sign of a weakened heart and an indicator of possible future heart disease.

Underweight patients may develop mitral valve prolapse due to shrunken heart muscle cells, or they can develop heart failure due to a weakened heart that can't pump well.

Researchers have tested a wrap that can be placed around an expanded and dangerously weakened heart.

Heart failure occurs when the weakened heart causes symptoms such as fatigue and shortness of breath.

It is a progressive and potentially fatal heart condition resulting from an enlarged and weakened heart muscle.

In the darkened room, physicians and nurses gaze up intently at glowing monitors as interventional cardiologist Emerson Perin injects stem cells into Pavelko's weakened heart.

A cadre of scientists and companies is now trying to prevent or reverse cardiac damage by infusing a cocktail of stem cells into weakened hearts.

The heart can compensate by pumping harder, but over time this can weaken the heart muscle and lead to right - sided heart failure.

In the heart, acidity increases the thickness and viscosity of the blood, making circulation more difficult and indirectly weakening the heart.

In a randomized investigation of the impact of berberine in patients with weakened hearts and congestive heart failure (CHF), there was an increase in heart strength and a decrease in measures of CHF in those assigned to the group taking berberine.

Continued damage to the heart can cause congestive heart failure, a dangerous condition that weakens the heart and makes it even more difficult for the heart to supply the body with the blood that it needs.

Diabetes causes rapid cellular deterioration, which can negatively impact and weaken the heart.

If you don't get enough protein in your diet, your immune system may become weakened, you can lose muscle mass, experience growth failure, and even weaken the heart and respiratory system.

This means the immune system is mistakenly attacking and destroying heart tissue, causing symptoms and weakening the heart.

Taurine deficiency is a common cause in cocker spaniels and boxers, while certain medications can weaken the heart muscle.

The minute baby heartworms grow and fill the blood vessels leading from the heart to the lungs weakening the heart and filling the lungs with fluid.

Anger increases our stress and blood pressure, it weakens the heart, it promotes headaches and wrinkles, and it makes us cranky and not much fun to be with.

Not exact matches

«When your brain is firing off these synapses of anger, you're weakening your immune system; you're raising your blood pressure, increasing your risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, and a plethora of other negative ailments,» he says.

While most strains don't cause disease in humans, the bacteria can cause respiratory tract and heart valve infections and sexually transmitted chancre sores in those with weakened immune systems.

The spiritual temperature outside the Church has plunged to arctic levels and the flame of faith flickering in the hearts of the faithful needs more shelter than our weakened parish structures can provide.

God's loving kindness is enough to sustain me in my unbridled stamina... As I near my ending day, my loving wants to be with God and all God's family members can not be over-run or compromised by others salt ladled wounds... As I progressively near death's gate, my love for Life weakens me and I am found understanding God's mercies... Alone nowadays, my heart flutters with every beat as I become ever more humbled by mankind's tribulations.

A debased notion of conscience — a barely concealed enthusiasm for autonomy disguised as an appeal to the primacy of conscience — weakens our sense of obligation, damages our purity of heart, and makes it harder to see God.

OY and OX, the Upward and the Forward: two religious forces, let me repeat, now met together in the heart of every man; forces which, as we have seen, weaken and wither away in separation... Therefore, as it remains for me to show, forces which await one thing alone — not that we should choose between them, but that we should find the means of combining them.

For when anyone is about to take his daily meal he puts in a few drops of oil» not so that he may enjoy some kind of pleasant flavor from the taste of it (indeed, the amount is so small that it is hardly enough to smear the passages of his throat, never mind to pass through it), but so that by doing this he may weaken the boastfulness of heart that usually creeps in flatteringly and surreptitiously with a stricter abstinence....

What I mean is that God wants us to love him eternally with our whole hearts - not in such a way as to injure or weaken our earthly love, but to provide a kind of cantus firmus to which the other melodies of life provide the counterpoint.

They told him he had the heart of an 80 - year - old man, weakened and incapable of supporting exercise.

Lack of this hormone can cause inadequate growth, lung and heart function, and weakened immune system.

If people on the centre left leave the Liberal Democrats in droves (something which, a small trickle notwithstanding, does not appear to be happening), then the junior coalition partner will be weakened and will struggle to hold its own in the inevitable battles for the heart and soul of the coalition government over the next few years.

The next stage is offering men over 65 a simple ultrasound test to detect early abdominal aortic aneurysm, or Triple A - the weakening of the main artery from heart to abdomen which kills over 3000 men a year — eventually saving more than 1600 lives each year.

Miner said the charter change weakens the planning commission and strikes fear in the hearts of community members who have contacted her.

For example, some cancer treatments, such as HER - 2 targeted therapies, can cause weakening of the heart muscle, a condition known as heart failure.

The medical community has long debated the ideal treatment for AF, especially for patients who suffer from left ventricular dysfunction, a weakening of the left ventricle that supplies most of the heart's pumping power.

In 2007, researchers with the Pierre Auger Observatory, an even bigger array in Argentina, reported that ultra — high - energy cosmic rays appeared to spring from the fiery hearts of certain galaxies — only to see that correlation weaken with more data.

Many of those patients will develop left ventricular dysfunction, a weakening of the heart's ability to effectively pump blood.

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.

During early adulthood, their heart and respiratory muscles weaken.

But scientists now report they have developed gels that, in animal tests, can be injected into the heart to shore up weakened areas and prevent heart failure.

Eventually, this causes the heart to weaken and function poorly, which may lead to heart failure and increased risk for sudden cardiac death.