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Investigations That Help Detect Lung Disease

...c bronchitis and emphysema. It is characterized by obstruction of airflow // and gradual loss of lung function that cannot be corrected. The disease is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. A test known as spirometry may significantly help physicians diagnose patients with chronic obstructive ...

Treating Blocked Arteries In The Lower Limbs

...ting patients with abnormal circulation due to the obstruction of the iliac arteries. Analyzing available data, the investigators found blood circulation improved with stents in 484 limbs out of 496 limbs of patients suffering from chronic leg ischemia. After five years, 86 percent of stented vessels remained op...

Help For Kids With Difficulty In Sleeping

...periodically stop breathing during sleep due to an obstruction in the upper airway. OSA is usually seen in older, heavier adults, but it can strike children, as well. Researchers enrolled 60 children diagnosed with OSA who were scheduled for surgery to remove their tonsils and adenoids. Each child’s caregiver ...

Inhaled Corticosteroids Found To Have No Significant Effect On COPD

...ulmonary disease is a disease caused by persistent obstruction of the airways // and is associated with severe emphysema or chronic bronchitis. Previous studies have shown inhaled corticosteroids can reduce the mortality rate and number of exacerbations COPD patients experience. However, results from a study con...

Easier Treatment for Blood Clot

...n condition that can be fatal. It is defined as an obstruction of a blood vessel in the lungs, usually due to a blood clot, //which blocks a coronary artery. While treatment is not always successful for a pulmonary embolism, a new study shows a new treatment is just as effective and easier to administer to patie...

Drug Reduces Risk of Clogged Arteries, Veins

...thromboembolism (a condition involving clotting or obstruction of a vein that includes both deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) than people who received a placebo,// according to the study results. In the group taking fondaparinux, 5.6 percent had venus thromboembolism events, compared with 10.5 percent...

Longer airway in males increases sleep disorder risk

...r airway tends to collapse during sleep causing an obstruction to the free flow of air.// This actually causes breathing to stop momentarily many times in the night, leading to daytime sleepiness and a higher risk of heart disease and stroke. Men are far more prone to sleep apnoea than women and researchers in...

Leeches help in tissue transfer

...ocol can salvage free tissue transfers with venous obstruction that are otherwise unsalvageable." An average of ...t that this is effective in reducing the amount of obstruction in tissue transplants and can eliminate the need for a second tissue transfer....

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...can be caused by a number of factors, including an obstruction to the baby's blood supply or detachment of the placenta, however, in many cases the cause cannot be identified. On the strength of these studies, researchers from hospitals and other medical institutions across the UK, with funding from the Medical...

Bronchitis in the young

... also more likely to suffer complications, such as obstruction in the lungs. The researchers stressed, however, that smoking was not the only risk factor for chronic bronchitis. Some 19% of sufferers did not smoke at all. Other likely risk factors include poverty, and exposure to respiratory irritants....

Snoring could be a warning

...re snorers.Women with the highest degree of airway obstruction during sleep also had the highest blood pressures. The Australian researchers found that they could prevent both the snoring and the high blood pressure by giving women breathing masks attached to a machine that kept their airways open while they w...

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