Chest in Biological News

Unexplained chest pain can be due to stress

Each year, many people seek emergency treatment for unexplained chest pains. A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, indicates several common factors among those affected, including stress at work, anxiety, depression and a sedentary lifestyle. Chest pain is a c...

New cardiology research presented at CHEST 2008

#7710 IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT MAY DEVELOP AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION (Tuesday, October 28, 10:30 AM EST) Patients receiving donated lungs may develop arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas reviewed the charts of all lung transplant recipi...

New CPR promises better results by compressing abdomen, not Chest

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that promises to be more effective than standard CPR because it increases nourishing blood flow through the heart by 25 percent over the current method. A new te...

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk

While patients hospitalized for a heart attack have long been treated with morphine to relieve chest pain, an analysis by researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute has shown that these patients have almost a 50 percent higher risk of dying. The researchers call for a randomized clini...

Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

Individuals with moderate to severe chest pains (angina) who have not found relief from medication may benefit from a new gene therapy approach being used by cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center to grow new blood vessels in the heart. The phase II clinical research study uses vascular...

New drug may reduce heart attack damage

...eart muscle suffers damage at two distinct times during a heart attack, Professor Khachigian said: "first when the initial blockage occurs causing the chest pain, and second, when the patient undergoes an intervention, such as angioplasty or stenting, to reopen the blocked artery". "At both these time...

New MRI technique could mean fewer breast biopsies in high-risk women

...n breast cancer risk factors including inherited genetic mutations, family or personal history of breast cancer, or previous radiation therapy to the chest receive an annual MRI screening in addition to their yearly mammogram. During a breast MRI, which lasts about a half hour, the technician injects...

UCLA cancer researchers develop model that may help identify cancer stem cells

...usions, a condition in which an abnormal amount of fluid collects between the thin layers of tissue lining the outside of the lung and the wall of the chest cavity. They had found in previous attempts that culturing lung cancer cells from tumors in Petri dishes did not work well. The cells that grew wer...

Early detection of lung cancer: New data presented at multidisciplinary meeting

...ts report that a new approach to diagnosis that ensures a patient has had a chest CT scan before they attend a clinic has the potential to reduce the time between their first abnormal chest X-ray and final diagnosis. Also during the conference, Greek investigato...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

...ipants exercised three times per week for ten weeks under the supervision of exercise physiologists. They performed a variety of exercises to include chest press, lat pull down, leg extension, triceps extension, arm curl and abdominal crunch. Exercise was done using standard exercise machines and each vol...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

...ipants exercised three times per week for ten weeks under the supervision of exercise physiologists. They performed a variety of exercises to include chest press, lat pull down, leg extension, triceps extension, arm curl and abdominal crunch. Exercise was done using standard exercise machines and each vol...

Fireflies and jellyfish help illuminate quest for cause of infertility

...funded by the Wellcome Trust, identified cells producing prolactin throughout the body. This included the pituitary gland, the thymus an organ in the chest which helps protect against autoimmunity the spleen and inflammatory cells in the abdominal cavity. ...

Novel veterinary procedure detecting life-threatening injuries touted

...injury which included automobile accidents and bite and gunshot wounds. High accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity was found when comparing TFAST to chest X-ray findings. TFAST was used to successfully diagnose PTX and identify other concurrent thoracic trauma in approximately 50 percent of these dogs...

European Multidisciplinary Conference on Thoracic Oncology

...state-of-the-art on the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of chest tumors, including results of translational research. It will facilitate sci...opportunity to promote an integrated approach to diagnosis and treatment of chest tumors and to strengthen European cooperation and scientific exchange . ...

Indoor air pollution increases asthma symptoms

...cubic meter of air (ug/m3) increase in indoor coarse particle concentration, there was a 6 percent increase in the number of days of cough, wheeze, or chest tightness, after adjusting for a number of factors. For every 10 ug/m3 increase in fine particles measured indoors, there was a 7 percent increase in ...

Scientists discover how deadly fungus protects itself

... enters the body through the lungs and can spread throughout the body, including the brain. The resulting infection, called cryptococcosis, can cause chest pain, dry cough, abdominal swelling, headache, blurred vision, or confusion. The infection can be fatal, especially if not treated with antifungal me...

Marked improvement in body image, physical stamina, post-surgical pectus patients report

... Patients who have had the common chest wall deformity known as pectus excavatum corrected...tum is the most common congenital deformity of the chest wall. Its defining feature is a depression, or indentation of the chest wall. In the late 1980s, King's Daughters surge...

TB bacterium uses its sugar coat to sweeten its chances of living in lungs

...ted can harbor the bacterium without symptoms for decades, but an estimated one in 10 will develop active disease characterized by a chronic cough and chest pain. An active infection is treated with a combination of antibiotics that patients take for at least six months. At the point of infection in th...

Robotic surgery lowers risk of a rare but serious complication of gastric bypass

...stinal leak, which can occur when the small intestine is reconnected to a small pouch created in the stomach, often produces symptoms of abdominal and chest pain, shortness of breath, fever, nausea, vomiting and rarely death. In this five-year study, there were no deaths in either group, and the rate for b...

Athletes' 'sweat and tears' linked to asthma

...e peer-reviewed journal of the American College of chest Physicians (ACCP), shows that athletes with EIA pr...MD, FCCP, and President of the American College of chest Physicians. "Otherwise healthy individuals who experience asthma symptoms, such as chest tightness, unusual shortness of breath, or extreme...

Children's national co-leads nationwide study of landmark sickle cell treatment

...in late August, the clinical trial will enroll 45 patients ages 3 to 16 with severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including stroke, recurring acute chest syndrome, or frequent pain crises. For all marrow and cord blood transplants, patients must undergo intense chemotherapy to prevent their immune syste...

Stent grafts: a better way to treat blunt trauma injuries

...rtery wall and may not be obvious initially. If left untreated, the artery could expand and eventually rupture, resulting in massive bleeding into the chest that is invariably fatal, said Hoffer. During surgery, a patient is at increased risk of paraplegia because the thoracic aorta is clamped, cutting ...

Sounding out heart problems automatically

... Sounding the chest with a cold stethoscope is probably one of the most commonly used diagnostics in the medical room after peering down the back of the throat while the ...

Primate's scent speaks volumes about who he is

... squalene, a scent molecule that works like glue to keep the more aromatic compounds in place longer. Males can be seen dabbing the wrist gland on the chest gland and then scratch-marking. The wrist glands are also central to the "stink fighting" of ringtails, in which they rub the glands along the length ...

Mental stress reduces blood flow to the heart in patients with gene variation

...ase who experience exercise-related reductions in blood flow to the heart respond similarly to mental stress. These bouts often produce no symptoms of chest pain and are rarely detectable on a standard electrocardiogram. Yet previous UF research has shown that these patients have a threefold greater risk o...

Possible link between baby swimming and breathing problems in children

...hers who have allergies or asthma have an increased risk of wheezing in the chest if they take part in baby swimming before 6 months of age. This is shown i...lst the proportion of children who experienced tightness or wheezing in the chest was 40 percent. Among children of mothers with asthma and allergy, 44 ...

Clinical trial that may help patients breathe easier begins at Central DuPage Hospital

... WINFIELD, Ill., April 1, 2008 Researchers at Suburban Lung Associates and the Chicago chest Center recently announced the start of the EASE (Exhale Airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial to explore an investigational treatment for advanced widesp...

Actor-robots 'staff' part of new $5M simulation training center

... A medical student places a chest tube in a patient lying on an operating table, while another student conduc...ice everything from bag-mask ventilation, intubation, and defibrillation to chest tube placement and endoscopies. Computer programs test decision making skil...

Faster koa tree growth without adverse ecosystem effects

...in koa forests. They found the potential koa crop trees in the test area on the eastern slope of Mauna Loa annually increased their stem diameter at chest height by nearly 120 percent. In addition, they found the treatments did not adversely affect the growth of native understory plants and non-native ...

Low exposure to asbestos-like mineral from Montana vermiculite may up lung disease risk

...h stopped using Libby vermiculite in 1980, current chest X-rays revealed that 20 percent of workers who exp...In the group with the highest exposure, changes on chest X-rays were noted in 54 percent of workers. Jam...l contained in the Libby vermiculite ore can cause chest X-ray changes at previously unrecognized lower exp...

How alligators rock and roll

...icus, which plays a role in breathing like the diaphragm that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity in humans and other mammals. But in gators...scles people eat when they order pork or beef ribs. There are two groups of chest rib muscles. One group helps the rib cage contract and pushes air out of th...

First European Lung Cancer Conference

...edical Oncology (ESMO), the European Lung Cancer Conference will be held biennially, alternating with the World Conference on Lung Cancer and the ESMO chest tumors conference. The event will gather top multidisciplinary experts to provide the audience (European and worldwide) with state-of-the-art educatio...

Diabetes makes it hard for blood vessels to relax

...plemental therapy for diabetics with vascular problems. Their findings also help explain why L-arginine supplement, marketed to treat hypertension, chest pain, heart failure and more, may not work long term. In the January 4, 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Johns Hopkins ...

Severe asthma may be a different form of the disease

... risk of a fatal attack. During an asthmatic attack, the airways in the lung narrow and may even close. A person suffering an attack may experience chest tightness, cough, shortness of breath, and wheezing. The airways in the lung, which look something like a tree with many branches, become inflamed and...

Study of bear hair will reveal genetic diversity of Yellowstone's grizzlies

...ersity, waiting to tell the tale of genetic diversity in the Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ranging from pale blond to almost black, the hair is filed in a chest freezer where the temperature is minus-77.8 degrees. Some of the tufts are almost 25 years old. The hair will head to Canada in a few months to be ...

ASU researchers use NASA satellites to improve pollution modeling

... even healthy adults and presents a special health risk to small children, the elderly and those with lung ailments. It can cause shortness of breath, chest pains, increased risk of infection, aggravation of asthma and significant decreases in lung function. Some studies have linked ozone exposure with dea...

HATS off to combat asthma

...ellular processes that result in the symptoms of asthma and COPD inflammation of the airways which can lead to coughing, breathlessness and increased chest infections. Though they are different diseases, asthma and COPD affect the human body in a similar way. In asthma, allergens irritate the lungs, in...

Using nanotechnology, UCLA researchers discover cancer cells 'feel' much softer than normal cells

...ng cancer cells can cause a build-up of fluids in body cavities such as the chest and abdomen. But fluid build-up in patients does not always mean cancer cel...s necessary at all. In this study, researchers collected fluid from the chest cavities of patients with lung, breast and pancreatic cancers, a relatively...

Cleveland Clinic leading clinical program to improve early-stage lung cancer detection

...t study in an ongoing program to determine whether chest X-ray CAD (computer-aided detection) can improve p...cer. The program is designed to determine whether chest X-ray CAD can help identify hard to detect lung ca...be enrolled in early 2008. The Significance of chest X-ray CAD (Computer Aided Detection) Lung canc...

Life-threatening gene defect located by UT-Houston researchers

...two deaths together. Bryant, 51, began to feel pain in the center of his chest nearly two years ago while on a business trip to Oklahoma. During the fligh...ef of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Memorial Hermann, cut open his chest and punctured the sac to allow the blood to drain. Bryants heart began beat...