News tagged with pulmonary disorders
Mutation causing wrong-way plumbing explains one type of blue-baby syndrome
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC), one type of "blue baby" syndrome, is a potentially deadly congenital disorder that occurs when pulmonary veins don't connect normally to the left atrium of the heart. This ...
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May 12, 2013 |
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A large-scale trial testing the intensity of cytoreductive therapy to prevent cardiovascular events
In the first randomized clinical trial assessing the proper target hematocrit level, or percentage of red blood cells that should be maintained in patients with polycythemia vera (PV), researchers have concluded that the ...
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Dec 09, 2012 |
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Research findings breathe new life into lung disease
It turns out the muscle cells on the outside of blood vessels have been wrongly accused for instigating lung disease. New research shows that while these muscle cells are responsible for constricting or dilating the blood ...
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Oct 24, 2012 |
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Study adds to efforts to find more effective anti-inflammatory drugs
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown function for a protein that could add to the expanding arsenal of potential new drugs for battling inflammation and tissue fibrosis in a number of disease processes.
Inflammatory disorders
Sep 27, 2012 |
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Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: Results from the first European registry
Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (Afib) is safe and suppresses arrhythmia recurrences in 74% of patients after a single procedure, according to results from the one-year follow-up of the Atrial Fibrillation Ablation ...
Cardiology
Aug 28, 2012 |
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Bariatric patients with obstructive sleep apnea fail to show symptoms
A Rhode Island Hospital researcher has found that the majority of bariatric surgery patients being treated for obesity have clinically significant obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but report fewer symptoms than other sleep ...
Sleep apnea
Aug 09, 2012 |
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Breakthrough could speed drug discovery
(Medical Xpress) -- Innovative technology being pioneered at Cardiff to speed up the discovery of new drugs to tackle lung diseases could also dramatically reduce testing on animals.
Medical research
Nov 25, 2011 |
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Lung regeneration closer to reality with new discovery
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to "turn on" lung regeneration -- an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory ...
Medical research
Oct 29, 2011 |
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The future of drugs is all in the family
In a first-ever comprehensive study of the species origins of nature-derived drugs, it is shown that drug-producing species are concentrated and clustered in a limited number of families, refuting the conventional view that ...
Medications
Sep 06, 2011 |
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New study may lead to quicker diagnosis, improved treatment for fatal lung disease
One-fifth of all patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension suffer with the fatal disease for more than two years before being correctly diagnosed and properly treated, according to a new national study led by researchers ...
Sleep apnea
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Certain medications associated with increased risk of urinary retention in men with COPD
Men with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are treated with inhaled anticholinergic drugs appear to have an increased risk of developing urinary retention (inability to urinate), according to a report in the ...
Medications
May 23, 2011 |
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