These data suggest two types of carotid artery disease: one form with stable plaque (unlikely to produce symptomatic embolization or carotid occlusion) and a second form, not necessarily more stenotic, sustained from unstable plaque at 'high risk' of symptomatic embolization or carotid occlusion....
¨Ulcers, shiny skin, thick nails, loss of hair B nA patient is being evaluated for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Systolic blood pressure in the arm is 130 and in the ankle 100. How would you interpret this result?¨A. Peripheral Perfusion is normal¨B. The result indicates moderate...
Characteristic symptoms of NSAID-exacerbated respiratory disease (N-ERD) include asthma, chronic eosinophilic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis, cysteinyl LT (CysLT) overproduction and NSAIDs hypersensitivity. Some N-ERD patients present with episodic treatment-resistant extra-respiratory symptoms (CysLT-as...
(Pain tolerance is the duration of time or the intensity of pain that an individual will endure before initiating overt pain responses.) Pain that is thought to be caused by trauma or disease of nerves and leads to abnormal processing of sensory information by the peripheral and central nervous...
In contrast to it, the HGSIP promotes the aggressive, life-threatening nature of the disease that leads to the occurrence of such “resuscitation” syndromes as “cytokine storming” under COVID-19, SIRS, DIC, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS). According to hypothesis of the ...
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: is death by seizures a cardiac disease? Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 26, 99–105 (2005). PubMed Google Scholar McKee, J. R. & Bodfish, J. W. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in adults with mental retardation. Am. J. Ment. Retard. 105, ...
However eventually, every family doctor will need to be equipped with a 45° fundus camera to enable sequential comparison of the retinal microvasculature and retraining in nutritional CardioRetinometry®. Here are two kinds of photographic evidence pointing to coronary artery disease. The first is...
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a major cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in immune compromised patients. Studies on the pathogenesis of IA have been limited by the difficulty to monitor disease progression in real-time. For real-time monitoring of the infection, we recently engineered a ...
The matter is particularly important since OSA has been linked to a spectrum of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), encompassing hypertension, arrhythmias, stroke, coronary artery disease (CAD), and metabolic syndrome. The presence of these co-morbidities holds considerable significance, as they are widely...
infants of diabetic mothers are more prone to RDS because insulin inhibits surfactant production; corticosteroids can promote type II alveolar cell development and surfactant synthesis Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) chronic pulmonary disease that develops in premature infants who were treated with mechanical...