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| | Acute Pulmonary Edema - Medstudents- Intensive Care |
 | | When the pulmonary fluid accumulation is very intense and fastly installed, patients present an intense dyspnea, cyanosis, and elimination of large amount of frothy pink sputum. | | | A helpful feature in distinguishing cardiac pulmonary edema from non cardiac pulmonary edema and from widespread exudates, such as pneumonia, is the speed with which the edema appears and disappears. | | | Since both cardiac and non-cacdiac disease can produce pulmonary edema, the physician should be aware of underlyieng conditions that can be precipitating the problem. |
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| | FindArticles in CHEST: May 2002 |
| | The incidence and the risk of pneumothorax and chest tube placement after percutaneous CT-guided lung biopsy : the angle of the needle trajectory is a novel predictor - clinical investigations - computed tomography | | | Incidence and outcome of polymicrobial ventilator-associated pneumonia - clinical investigations in critical care | | | A 47-year-old woman with wheezing and respiratory failure unresponsive to conventional ventilatory modalities - pulmonary and critical care pearls |
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| | pulmonary alveolus -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | A pulmonary embolism may be the result of a blood clot that has formed elsewhere, has broken loose, and has traveled through the circulatory system to the point of obstruction; or it may be due to some other obstruction, such as fat... | | | After invading the lungs, some fungi may disseminate, or spread, to other organs, including the heart and the meninges (the tissue covering the brain and spinal cord). | | | Because of their physiologic relationship, the heart and the respiratory system often are linked in disease. |
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| | Alveolus, Inc. - Investor Info |
| | In this emerging field, interventional pulmonologists, radiologists, ENT and thoracic physicians are focusing on better means to manage and treat upper and lower pulmonary airway obstructions. | | | Through this unique cumulatively integrated physician-based process, extensive intellectual property, medical device development expertise, and resource-based partnerships, Alveolus has filled the need for a physician-based approach to product design and utilization in the market for “Non-Vascular Interventional Stenting.” | | | Alveolus has initially focused on product development for benign and cancerous airway obstruction of the lungs. |
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| | RT Article |
| | Recent research has demonstrated a role for capnography in the assessment of asthma and pulmonary emboli. | | | levels correlate well with cardiac output, perfusion of peripheral tissues, and pulmonary circulation. | | | The patient has severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and has been intubated for respiratory distress in the past. |
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| | Pulmonary alveolus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | If this happens to such a degree that the patient cannot draw enough oxygen from his environment, then he may need supplemental oxygen. | | | The more pulmonary capillaries participating in this process, the more total O | | | Alveoli are peculiar to mammalian lungs; different structures are involved in gas exchange in other vertebrates. |
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| | Alveolus, Inc. - Homepage |
| | Alveolus has partnered itself with business leaders, thought-leading physicians, and internationally recognized medical institutions in order to build value and quality in the creation of curative and palliative treatment alternatives. | | | Alveolus' advanced stent-ing technology is designed to enhance the quality of life for patients who suffer from malignant and benign pulmonary or gastrointestinal obstructive lumen diseases. | | | The Company, whose products are developed by physicians for physicians, has developed a next-generation stent for use in the lungs, and is in various stages of development with stents for use in the esophagus, colon, duodenum, pancreas, biliary tract and other ducts. |
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| | MEDICAL BIOLOGY: ON CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE |
| | In another approach, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can be considered a chronic lung airway obstruction syndrome associated with any or all of the following: chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma. | | | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is more a constellation of symptoms than a single disease entity with a specific etiology, associated specific symptoms, and specific anatomic changes. | | | Further evidence that genetic factors are important comes from the familial clustering of patients with early-onset chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and from the differences in the prevalence of the disease among racial groups. |
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| | MCB 136, Spring 2001 - Respiration - Review Answers |
| | Hydrostatic forces: The hydrostatic pressure within most systemic capillary beds averages about 25 mmHg, whereas within the pulmonary capillaries, pressures of about 10 mmHg are observed. | | | Ordinarily this is no real limitation, but there may be in hypoxia or pulmonary disease. | | | Osmotic forces: The relatively high permeability of the pulmonary capillaries results in an interstitial oncotic pressure (plasma protein) that is higher in the lungs than in many systemic vascular beds. |
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| | Scipione Riva-Rocci (www.whonamedit.com) |
| | Riva-Rocci contributed to the development of Forlanini’s method through original physiopathological research. | | | He demonstrated the importance of the eccentric pressure of the pulmonary alveolus as a phthisiogenic factor, and he showed that the respiratory function is not substantially endangered in individuals suffering from a reduction of respiratory lung area, particularly in patients with tuberculosis of the lung during pneumothoracic treatment. | | | In 1898 he followed Forlanini - inventor of the technique of artificial pneumothorax for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis - to the University of Pavia. |
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| | AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology |
| | Effects of hypoxia in porcine pulmonary arterial myocytes: roles of KV channel and endothelin-1. | | | Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21224 APStracts 7:0118L, 2000. | | | K+ channel inhibition, calcium signaling, and vasomotor tone in canine pulmonary artery smooth muscle. |
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| | Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine and Board of Pulmonary Diseases | | | McGowan, S.E.: Contributions of retinoids to the generation and repair of the pulmonary alveolus. |
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| | emphysema -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! |
| | Symptoms include severe breathlessness, weight loss, bluish skin, chest tightness, and wheezing. | | | One such disease is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, which is one of the major causes of debilitation and eventual death in cigarette smokers. | | | It is not surprising that smokers suffer from many respiratory diseases other than lung cancer. |
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| | THE ALCOHOL BREATH TEST A PARADIGM SHIFT |
| | Michael P. Hlastala, Ph.D. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine | | | and pulmonary capillary blood flow in man. J. | | | Over the years, breath testing has become a widely used method for quantitative |
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| | By what route does CO2 leave the body? | | | pulmonary semilunar valve--left atrioventricular valve--aortic semilunar valve¾right atrioventricular valve E. | | | The pulmonary semilunar valve prevents blood from entering the A. |
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| | Howstuffworks "Is it harmful to breathe 100-percent oxygen?" |
| | Pulmonary edema (intensive-care patients on breathing machines at 30 hours or more exposure) | | | Local areas of collapsed alveoli when plugged by mucus, a condition called atelectasis (patients, volunteers). | | | In humans breathing 100-percent oxygen at normal pressure, the following effects were observed: |
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| | TSRI - News and Publications |
| | In addition, in phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials in 47 preterm infants in 6 centers in the United States, KL -Surfactant induced a rapid and sustained increase in pulmonary function. | | | Biochemical Determinants of the Function of Pulmonary Surfactant | | | Pulmonary surfactant is a monolayer of phospholipids and proteins, unique in biological systems, that forms at the air-water interface of the pulmonary alveolus. |
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| | Estrogen receptors regulate pulmonary alveolus formation and estrogen is required for alveolar architectural stability, ... |
| | COPD is caused by chronic respiratory inflammation, proteolytic breakdown of airway tissue and consequent loss of elastic recoil in the lungs. | | | World-wide, 600 million people suffer from the chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), chronic obstructive bronchitis and emphysema, with some three million dying from the diseases each year. | | | If you have or suspect you may have a health problem, you should consult your physician or other health care provider. |
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| | alveolus on Encyclopedia.com |
| | First lung injury, then ARDS The alveolar/capillary (A/C) unit, the basic pulmonary structure of gas exchange, is where oxyge. | | | Alveolus receives CE mark for next generation non-vascular interventional pulmonary stenting device. |
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| | Estrogen receptor (ER) alpha regulates pulmonary alveolus formation, ER beta regulates lung tissue elastic recoil |
| | Increasing evidence indicates women are more susceptible than men to the harmful pulmonary effects of cigarette smoke and to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease of midlife and later. | | | We conclude, ERalpha regulates pulmonary alveolus formation, whereas ERbeta regulates lung tissue recoil and hence, most likely the composition of the alveolar extracellular matrix. | | | Estrogen receptor (ER) alpha regulates pulmonary alveolus formation, ER beta regulates lung tissue elastic recoil |
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| | Dorlands Medical Dictionary |
| | (al”ve-ə-lot´ə-me) [alveolo- + -tomy] incision into a dental alveolus; see also alveolectomy. | | | (al”ve-o-lal´jə) [alveolo- + -algia] pain occurring in the dental alveolus, sometimes observed after tooth extraction. | | | ] a combining form denoting relationship to an alveolus, especially a dental alveolus. |
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| | Lung Diffusion - A Great Resource of Information |
| | PULMONARY FUNCTIONS LAB The Laboratory offers comprehensive evaluation of the patient with pulmonary disease: Full pulmonary function tests: routine spirometry, lung volumes, diffusion testing... | | | Lung compliance, diffusion capacity, FVC, FEV1, and flow rate are all decreased in an infected athlete while at rest, and respiratory muscle weakness is present. | | | Pulmonary function testing may involve one or several tests of your lungs including spirometry, lung volumes, diffusion testing, and oxygen saturation measurement by oximetry or blood gas sampling... |
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| | The organisms are found in the pulmonary lymphatics surrounding pulmonary arterioles and bronchi. | | | If a spore is smaller than 5 microns, it has the ability to reach the pulmonary alveolus, where it is taken up by lung macrophages (Inhalational). | | | The macrophage travels through the pulmonary lymphatics toward the hilar and the lymph nodes of the mediastinal region. |
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| | Alveolus (disambiguation) - Psychology Central |
| | Alveolus is a general anatomical term that can be used as a synonym for several more specific structures: | | | Alveolar, the adjective form of "alveolus", can be used in several contexts: | | | Pulmonary alveolus, an air sac in the lungs |
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| | ACD - What is it |
| | Prostaglandin - Any of the class of physiologically active substances present in many tissues, with effects such as vasodilation, vasoconstriction, stimulation of intestinal or bronchial smooth muscle, uterine stimulation and antagonism to hormones influencing lipid metabolism | | | Acinus (pulmonary definition) - that part of the airway consisting of the respiratory bronchiole and all of it’s branches | | | Pulmonary alveolus - one of the thin- walled saclike terminal dilations of the respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveolar sacs across which gas exchange occurs between alveolar air and the alveolar capillaries |
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| | Lungs |
| | The carbon dioxide then leaves the alveolus when you exhale and the oxygen-enriched blood returns to the heart. | | | Air from the lungs (high pressure) then flows out of the airways to the outside air (low pressure). | | | Diseases or conditions that minimise or prevent gas exchange: |
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| | Talk:Pulmonary alveolus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Is there a disease in which the alveolus don't work because the gas exchange is only one way? | | | This article was last found to be among the top ten hits in a Google search for pulmonary alveolus (OR) pulmonary alveoli (BUT NOT) pulmonary alveolar on January 2, 2005 | | | Articles that appear in the first page of results from a Google search are highly visible to the general public. |
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| | Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information |
| | To model interactions of soot and pulmonary surfactant, the authors dispersed soots in vitro in the primary phospholipid pulmonary surfactant dipalmitoyl glycerophosphorylcholine (lecithin) (DPL) in physiological saline. | | | Upon deposition in a pulmonary alveolus or respiratory bronchiole, respirable diesel soot particles will contact first the hypophase which is coated by and laden with surfactants. | | | They have shown that diesel soots dispersed in lecithin surfactant can express mutagenic activity, in the Ames assay system using S. typhimurium TA98, comparable to that expressed by equal amounts of soot extracted by dichloromethane/dimethylsulfoxide (DCM/DMSO). |
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| | Diagnose-Me: Alveolar |
| | "...Pulmonary phase: This occurs during the period when the larvae are bursting out of the capillaries in the lungs into the | | | Pertaining to a small hollow space, as in the lung, e.g. |
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| | pulmonary alveolus - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | pulmonary alveolus : The On-line Medical Dictionary [home, info] | | | We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word pulmonary alveolus: | | | pulmonary alveolus : Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition [home, info] |
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| | AFIP: Radiologic Pathology: Anthrax: Pathogenesis - Introduction (1) |
| | The ability to reach the pulmonary alveolus requires a spore size of less than 5 microns. | | | The spore is engulfed by alveolar macrophages, and is transported through the pulmonary lymphatics to hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes. |
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| | Diagnose-Me: Pulmonary |
| | embolism is a severe and life-threatening condition, caused when the pulmonary artery is blocked by foreign matter such as a blood clot (thrombus), fat, air or tumor tissue..." | | | Our Question about a cough that produces mucus |
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| | pulmonary alveolus - definition from Biology-Online.org |
| | One of the thin-walled saclike terminal dilations of the respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveolar sacs across which gas exchange occurs between alveolar air and the pulmonary capillaries. | | | Synonym: alveoli pulmonis, alveolus, air cells, air vesicles, bronchic cells. |
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| | Zoology 531 - Synonymy |
| | T tubule (striated muscle cell) > transverse tubule | | | great alveolar cell (pulmonary alveolus) > type-II pneumocyte | | | small alveolar cell (pulmonary alveolus) > type-I pneumocyte |
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