to achieve an output that is greater than the input [69]. If the response to furosemide therapy is limited, evidence from the heart failure population shows a combination therapy of diuretics may be considered using spironolactone, acetazolamide, or indapamide but this needs to be studied in mixe...
Researchers do know that when the amniotic fluid (or fetal material like cells or hair) makes its way into the person's bloodstream, it causes an allergic-like reaction that can be fatal. The inflammatory response leads to organ damage, particularly to the lungs and heart.4 Experts are not ...
POCUS is suggested or endorsed by many internal medicine societies to assist healthcare providers withdiagnosingand treating many common pathologies. It can be promising for volume status assessment. Images and clinical information can be obtained relatively quickly from different organs including thelungs,...
(1980). Konrad Witzig Memorial Lecture: Some Fluid Mechanic Theories and Their Application to the Design of Heart Valves and Membrane Lungs. In: Baan, J., Arntzenius, A.C., Yellin, E.L. (eds) Cardiac Dynamics. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://...
The main lifestyle factor that can contribute to fluid retention is being sedentary. Muscles around veins play a role in moving blood back to the heart. When physically inactive, these muscles are not able to assist circulation as it normally should. As a result blood may pool in certain are...
Drugs.Drugs can be given to improve low blood pressure, heart muscle contractions, maintain the muscle tone of the uterus, and reduce the fluid that's built up around the heart or lungs. Although most women don't survive amniotic fluid embolism, starting resuscitation early greatly improves thei...
After the CSF is secreted by the choroid plexus, it circulates throughout the ventricular system and thesubarachnoid spacethat surrounds the brain and spinal cord (Fig. 26‐2). The anatomy of the ventricular system allows for movement of CSF in and around all the major structures of the brai...
In addition, SS also presents with extra-glandular systemic manifestations that may impact tissues such as the skin, heart, lungs, kidney, gastrointestinal and endocrine system, as well as the central and peripheral nervous system3. The current criteria used for the diagnosis of pSS include: ...
they scatter. Those scattered waves hit other air pockets, scattering them further. This process of bouncing around means that it takes an ultrasound's echo much longer to bounce back to theultrasound machine– though it's still measured in microseconds. And that is why the lung looks like a...
Factors permitting the flow of cerebrospinal fluid are the forces generated by the pulsations of the heart and the movement of the lungs [10,14,15,28]. In adults, the total volume of cerebrospinal fluid is about 150 mL, while its production rate is about 20 mL/h, or 500 mL/day [14,...