Airway in Medical News

Benefits from upper airway surgery for sleep apnea found to equal CPAP

... and Neck Surgery . Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is a highly effective ... patients, those treated through upper airway surgery experienced the same level of long-term ... CPAP, had minimal QOL improvement. The upper airway includes nose and throat (pharyngeal) areas, ...

NUCYNTA(TM) (tapentadol) CII Immediate Release Tablets Now Available for Relief of Moderate to Severe Acute Pain

... accompanied by hypoxia, hypercapnia, or upper airway obstruction, in whom even moderate therapeutic ... therapeutic doses of NUCYNTA(TM) may increase airway resistance and decrease respiratory drive to the ... should be given to reestablishment of a patent airway and institution of assisted or controlled ...

Partner's Support Helps Men Adhere to Apnea Treatment

... Positive airway pressure therapy works best when couple works ... -- Going to bed wearing a continuous positive airway pressure machine may not be a flattering look. ... sleep apnea before beginning continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, at the 10-day mark and ...

Inspire Medical Systems Completes $17 Million Series B Financing

... device utilizes electrical stimulation to prevent airway closure during sleep MINNEAPOLIS, June 8 ... OSA experience recurrent blockage of their upper airway during sleep, resulting in frequent arousals from ... OSA because the muscles that normally hold the airway open during wakefulness relax during sleep and ...

Apieron Secures Series D Commitments

... nitric oxide, a well-documented marker for airway inflammation." Apieron is a medical device ... (eNO) which is a well established indicator of airway inflammation for asthma management. Utilizing a ... practical and affordable device for inflammatory airway measurement in asthma. The measurement of eNO has ...

Indiana U. research at the American College of Sports Medicine conference

... exercise triggers an acute narrowing of the airway afterward, making breathing difficult. Around 80 ... nitric oxide (FENO) levels, which is a marker of airway inflammation, is elevated in people who have EIA. ... EIB and the magnitude of both large and small airway changes as a result of exercise," said lead ...

New Options Offered for Sleep Apnea

... tough to treat. In sleep apnea, the upper airway becomes blocked, and people stop breathing during ... increases air pressure in the throat, keeping the airway open. Called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, the therapy involves wearing a ...

Mock CPR drills in kids show many residents fail in key skills, Hopkins study reveals

... teaching hospitals traditionally has emphasized airway rather than heart maneuvers to resuscitate a lifeless child. But in a patient without a pulse, airway maneuvers will only work if used together with ... equally emphasize cardiac maneuvers along with airway ventilation. The findings, even though not ...

New Spray Could Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Patients

... absorption of sodium from the surface of the airway causes their airways to dry, and allows mucous and bacteria to accumulate. In tests on airway surface cells grown in a laboratory, GS-9411 ... administered by aerosol can effectively increase airway surface liquid and enhance mucous clearance in an ...

Sodium channel blocker shows promise as a potential treatment for cystic fibrosis

... may benefit from a new therapy that increases airway hydration, preventing the buildup of mucous, ... In normal respiration, the moist surface of the airway allows individuals to effectively clear mucous, ... with cystic fibrosis, the hydration level of the airway is altered and ...

Swallowing-Breathing Dysfunction Worsens Lung Disorder

... secretion of mucus, oxidative stress and airway inflammation. It had been known that COPD ... needed to prevent food material from entering the airway while eating," she said. "In patients with COPD, the competition for the upper airway may cause the respiratory drive to override ...

Inspire Medical Systems Completes First Implant of the Inspire II System to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea

... OSA experience recurrent blockage of their upper airway during sleep, resulting in frequent arousals from ... OSA because the muscles that normally hold the airway open during wakefulness relax during sleep and allow the airway to collapse. When the airway is partially closed and/or the muscles relax too ...

Study Pinpoints New Gene for Cystic Fibrosis

... variants in a gene called IFRD1 can modulate the airway disease that marks cystic fibrosis (CF) by muting ... neutrophils have long been suspects in CF airway disease, Karp said. It was thought that they damage the airway via a hyperactive response to the persistent ...

Hope for preventative treatment for cystic fibrosis lung disease

... of life, no thick mucus forms in the lungs and airway inflammation and chronic lung damage can be ... cannot be easily cleared. This leads to chronic airway inflammation and other serious respiratory and ... is currently no treatment available that targets airway surface dehydration, i.e. the root cause of the ...

Even with medication, asthma patients show chronic airflow changes in lungs

... have determined that the location and degree of airway narrowing in the lungs of asthma sufferers can be ... measure the changes in the location and size of airway defects over time, researchers performed ... 3He MRI revealed that more than one-third of airway defects were in the same location and ...

Doctors Urged to Screen Diabetics for Sleep Apnea

... last June. Sleep apnea occurs when a person's airway becomes blocked during sleep. It's usually caused ... obstructive sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP. Before sleep, the person ... a CPAP machine that uses air pressure to keep the airway open, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, ...

Holiday Weight Gain May Contribute to Sleep Apnea Extra Pounds May Produce Severe Problems for Adults

... a common, but dangerous condition where the upper airway in the throat closes off during sleep. Just like ... size due to fat formation encroaches on the upper airway causing the airway to narrow." Air rushing through this ...

VIDA Diagnostics Gains FDA Approval for Comprehensive Lung Analysis Software

... first so-approved automatic lobe density and airway system measurement functions. "We are ... and density measurements, an extensive named airway map and a full suite of measurement tools for ... lobe measurement tools are combined with advanced airway visualization to aid in patient assessment and ...

Nearly 1 in 3 Asthma Cases May Be Misdiagnosed

... told they have asthma may not have the chronic airway disease, new Canadian research claims. The ... well on the lung function test, were given an airway "challenge" test. People with asthma aren't ... to do well on this test. Those that passed the airway challenge were gradually tapered off their asthma ...

JCI online early table of contents: Nov. 6, 2008

... disease that mimics asthma (experimental allergic airway inflammation); they hope that these approaches ... of eosinophils in the lungs of mice with allergic airway inflammation. As some of the imaging techniques ... treatment response in a mouse model of allergic airway inflammation AUTHOR CONTACT: Mikael J. ...

MDCT: Non-invasive alternative to bronchoscopy in patients with airway stent complications

... CT (MDCT) scans are highly accurate in detecting airway stent complications according to a recent study ... for the routine surveillance of patients with airway stents," said Dr. Dialani. Patient complications from airway stents are common. "Bronchoscopy is currently the ...

Phase 2a Data for MEDI-528 Presented at CHEST 2008

... in many features of asthma, including increased airway inflammation and hyperreactivity. Blocking the actions of IL-9 has been shown to reduce the airway inflammation and increased airway inflammation and increased airway ...

Potential treatment option for severe emphysema under study

... advanced widespread emphysema. The EASE (Exhale airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial focuses on airway bypass, a minimally invasive procedure designed ... trapped air to exit the lungs. During the airway bypass procedure, new openings are created in ...

Innate immune system targets asthma-linked fungus for destruction

... humans is capable of killing a fungus linked to airway inflammation, chronic rhinosinusitis and ... immune response commonly associated with airway inflammatory disorders. Continual exposure of ... degranulation of eosinophils causes damage of airway mucosa and enhances inflammation. The next step ...

Asthma in boys may be just a phase, but for girls it may be there to stay

... according to a prospective study that analyzed airway responsiveness (AR) in more than 1,000 children ... to the amount of methacholine it took to provoke airway constriction, the girls' reactivity did not ... to provoke a 20 percent constriction in the boys' airway on average as it did with the girls. What's ...

Sleep Apnea Boosts Death Risk

... common apnea treatment called Continuous Positive airway Pressure, Claman said. Continuous Positive airway Pressure (CPAP) treatment blows air into a person's nose to keep the airway from collapsing. "Further work is needed to ...

Hill-Rom Announces Agreement With Tri-anim to Enhance Distribution Channels for The Vest(R) System in U.S. Hospitals & Long-Term Care Facilities

... for Hill-Rom's product The Vest(R) airway Clearance System to both acute and long-term care ... on increasing awareness of the importance of airway Clearance Therapy in the treatment of ... and look forward to taking Hill-Rom's The Vest airway Clearance System into the Acute Care ...

JCI table of contents: June 20, 2008

... EDITOR'S PICK: Smoking out the mediators of airway damage caused by pollutants New insight into ... suggesting that they might contribute to the airway damage that occurs in smoke-related diseases. ... virulent in rhesus monkeys but cannot cross the airway epithelium and is not shed AUTHOR CONTACT: ...

Measle's Spread Doesn't Depend on Airways

... long been assumed that measles virus infects the airway epithelium [surface lining cells] before ... developing a measles virus that cannot enter the airway epithelium. They then infected rhesus monkeys ... were infected, the virus never entered the airway epithelium. Also, the virus did not cross the ...

Treatment at an AASM accredited sleep center improves long-term CPAP compliance

... more likely to comply with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for longer periods of time if ... for sleep apnea in 1981, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the most common and effective ... they wear during sleep. This airflow keeps the airway open, preventing the pauses in breathing that ...

New study in JCSM finds that obesity can predict upper airway obstruction amongst children

... a significant, but only weak, predictor of upper airway obstruction during sleep, according to a study ... of age, who were referred for evaluation of upper airway obstruction and underwent one night of ... the association between body mass and upper airway obstruction severity was not significantly ...

Clinical guidelines for the manual titration of PAP in OSA patients published in JCSM

... WESTCHESTER, Ill. Positive airway pressure (PAP) devices are used to treat patients ... the amount of pressure needed to free the upper airway and prevent it from being blocked by the ... in the back of the throat. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bi-level ...

JCI online early table of contents: April 8, 2008

... that we breathe for chemicals that might threaten airway function. These sensory nerves are particularly ... indicate that TRPA1 may mediate the response of airway sensory nerves to upper airway irritants. The authors therefore suggest that ...

Asthma and smoker's lung: dry airways play a key role

... they found that insufficient hydration of the airway surfaces leads to pathologies typical of chronic ... certain sodium channels on the surface of airway cells that are responsible for the resorption of ... The cells absorb too much fluid, causing the airway surfaces to dry out. This gives rise to thick dry ...

Henry Ford Hospital to study effectiveness of a new procedure that may help emphysema suffers

... today announced the start of the EASE (Exhale airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial, an international, ... The study focuses on a new procedure, called airway bypass, that involves creating pathways in the ... By creating new pathways for airflow with the airway bypass procedure, we hope to reduce ...

Treatment for mild asthma leads to improved lung function

... benefits on markers such as lung function, airway hyperresponsiveness and exhaled nitric oxide, ... their lung function was better, they had less airway inflammation and less airway twitchiness. All of these things are predictors ...

Obese Children Face More Complications During Surgery

... had a higher rate of difficult mask ventilation, airway obstruction, major oxygen desaturation (decrease in oxygen in the blood), and other airway problems. Specifically, the study found that: ... of normal-weight children experienced major airway obstructions. Almost 9 percent of obese ...

VBI, Mayo Clinic investigate link between fungal proteins, innate immunity and asthma

... of the role of environmental fungi in chronic airway disorders. Recently NIAID awarded the ... how the environmental fungus Alternaria triggers airway inflammation and bronchial asthma. Exposure to ... Mounting evidence suggests that allergic airway disorders such as asthma and chronic sinusitis ...

Researchers at Pulmonary Associates to study airway bypass procedure for severe emphysema

... today announced the start of the EASE (Exhale airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial, an international, ... widespread emphysema. The trial focuses on airway bypass, a catheter-based bronchoscopic procedure ... procedure, new openings are created in the airway wall connecting the damaged lung tissue to the ...

New York Methodist Hospital to study airway bypass treatment for emphysema

... today announced the start of the EASE (Exhale airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial, an international, ... The study focuses on a procedure called airway bypass that involves creating pathways in the ... "By creating new pathways for airflow with the airway bypass procedure, we hope to reduce ...