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| | Acute renal failure - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
 | | Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Dialytic Therapy for Acute Renal Failure in Intensive Care. | | | The treatment of renal failure: Therapeutic principles in the management of acute and chronic uremia | | | Acute Renal Failure in the Intensive Therapy Unit (Current Concepts in Critical Care) |
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| | Respiratory system |
| | In humans and other mammals, the respiratory system consists of the lungs, the series of tubes leading to the lungs, and the chest structures responsible for bringing air into and out of the lungs during respiration. | | | The respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveoli make up the respiratory zone. | | | Various substances can be used to enhance this depth, essentially having a haemoglobising role. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/respiratory_system
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| | HealthCentral - General Encyclopedia - Failure to thrive |
| | Failure of growth and development in infants, toddlers, preschoolers, schoolage children, or adolescents to meet realistic expectations due to genetic, physical, psychological, or social factors. | | | Failure to thrive in infants and children is usually noticed by failure to gain height and weight. | | | There are several possible causes of failure to thrive that will disturb the body's metabolism enough to result in delayed growth. |
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http://www.healthcentral.com/mhc/top/000991.cfm
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| | Information About Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) |
| | Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a frightening term that indicates that the heart's decline has reached a point where it is no longer pumping well enough to supply the blood that the body needs for optimum health. | | | Prevention of congestive heart failure is an important goal. | | | This is congestive heart failure of the type that causes the lungs to fill with fluid, a condition known as pulmonary edema. |
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http://www.symptoms-of-congestive-heart-failure.com
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| | NEJM -- Cardiac Resynchronization in Chronic Heart Failure |
| | Clinical efficacy of cardiac resynchronization therapy using left ventricular pacing in heart failure patients stratified by severity of ventricular conduction delay. | | | Hillegass, W. B, Epstein, A. Cardiac resynchronisation was effective for moderate to severe heart failure with intraventricular conduction delay. | | | Cardiac resynchronisation therapy: when the drugs don't work.. |
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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/346/24/1845
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| | Failure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Failure in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. | | | A person who is only interested in the final outcome of an activity would consider it to be an Outcome Failure if the core issue has not been resolved or a core need is not met. | | | Failure may be the result of one or many faults. |
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| | Respiratory Failure - Causes, Symptoms & Treatment |
| | Current therapy for all forms of respiratory failure attempts, first, to provide support for the heart, lungs, and other affected vital organs; and second, to identify and treat the underlying cause. | | | This fact book is a brief overview of the unique changes in lung function that are typical of respiratory failure and the widely different medical conditions that can cause those changes. | | | Patients with respiratory failure who have excessive lung secretions are sometimes helped by fiberoptic bronchoscopy, a technique for accessing the interior of the bronchi, the larger air passages of the lungs. |
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http://www.healthnewsflash.com/conditions/respiratory_failure.php
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| | NIH Press Release - Inhaled Treatment Effective for Hypoxic Respiratory Failure in Newborns - 02/26/1997 |
| | Treatment with inhaled nitric oxide is an effective therapy for hypoxic respiratory failure in term and near-term infants, according to the lead article in the February 27, 1997 New England Journal of Medicine. | | | Because hypoxic respiratory failure is an uncommon disease in newborns, previous studies that have attempted to prove that nitric oxide reduces the incidence of death or the need for ECMO have failed because they have been unable to enroll enough infants to assess the impact of nitric oxide on these important outcomes. | | | Hypoxic respiratory failure is a potentially fatal condition in which newborn infants, for a variety of reasons, cannot breathe in enough oxygen to survive. |
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| | Heart Failure |
| | Inotropic therapy for heart failure: An evidence-based approach. | | | Cardiac transplantation is reserved for otherwise healthy patients with end-stage congestive heart failure with severely impaired function despite optimal medical therapy. | | | Heart failure is a clinical syndrome characterized by inadequate systemic perfusion to meet the body's metabolic demands as a result of impaired cardiac pump function. |
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http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/diseasemanagement/cardiology/heartfailure/heartfailure.htm
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| | what is heart failure? |
| | Heart Failure is a condition initiated by impairment of the heart's function as a pump! | | | Heart failure is a cumulative consequence of all insults to the heart over someone's life. | | | The heart's inability to pump blood to the muscles and organs isn't always apparent in early stages of heart failure. |
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| | From The Cleveland Clinic: Your Guide to Heart Failure |
| | With heart failure, blood moves through the heart and body at a slower rate, and pressure in the heart increases. | | | Systolic dysfunction (or systolic heart failure) occurs when the heart muscle doesn't contract with enough force, so there is not enough oxygen-rich blood to be pumped throughout the body. | | | Although surgery is more risky for people with heart failure, new strategies before, during and after surgery have reduced the risks and improved outcomes. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL OF GERIATRICS, Sec. 10, Ch. 79, Respiratory Failure |
| | The respiratory system can fail to eliminate CO (ventilatory failure), to bring in O | | | Respiratory failure can be defined with numeric constants, such as a partial pressure of oxygen (Pao | | | Other common causes of ventilatory failure include decreased respiratory muscle strength and impairment of the central drive to breathe, which can be caused by drug toxicity. |
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| | Topic Review - Congestive Heart Failure |
| | The prototype of acute heart failure is the patient who is entirely well but who suddenly develops a large myocardial infarction or rupture of a cardiac valve. | | | Vasoconstriction mediated by the adrenergic nervous system is largely responsible for this redistribution, which in turn may be responsible for many of the clinical manifestations of heart failure, such as fluid accumulation (reduction of renal flow), low grade fever (redistribution of cutaneous flow), and fatigue (reduction of muscle flow). | | | This redistribution is most marked when a patient with heart failure exercises, but as heart failure advances, redistribution occurs even in the basal state. |
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| | eMedicine - Respiratory Failure : Article by Sat Sharma, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, DABSM |
| | The reader is recommended to review the article specific to the disease for the workup and management of the various disorders, all of which progress by different means but ultimately converge on a final common pathway of respiratory failure. | | | The application of ventilatory support through a nasal or full face mask in lieu of ETT is being used increasingly for patients with acute or chronic respiratory failure. | | | Respiratory failure may be classified as hypoxemic or hypercapnic and may be either acute or chronic. |
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| | Heart Failure |
| | Heart failure is a chronic condition characterized by the heart's diminished ability to pump blood effectively. | | | Diastolic heart failure occurs when the heart cannot fill properly with blood because it has lost the ability to relax sufficiently between contractions. | | | The term congestive heart failure is often used to describe all patients with heart failure. |
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| | eMedicine - Heart Failure : Article by Michael E Zevitz, MD |
| | A previously stable compensated patient may develop heart failure that is clinically apparent for the first time when the intrinsic process has advanced to a critical point, such as with further narrowing of a stenotic aortic valve or mitral valve. | | | The New York Heart Association (NYHA) Classification of Heart Failure (see Staging), which varies slightly from the above categorization of CHF symptoms, is widely used in practice and in clinical studies to quantify clinical assessment of CHF. | | | In diastolic heart failure, altered relaxation of the ventricle (due to delayed calcium uptake by the myocyte sarcoplasmic reticulum and delayed calcium efflux from the myocyte) occurs in response to an increase in ventricular afterload (pressure overload). |
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| | Acute Respiratory Failure |
| | More simply put, acute respiratory failure results when there is an imbalance between the respiratory muscle power available (supply) versus the muscle power needed (demand). | | | The management of acute respiratory failure can be divided into an urgent resuscitation phase followed by a phase of ongoing care. | | | Given a critically ill patient, the resident must be able to determine the presence or absence of respiratory failure, provide for its emergency support, and have a plan of action to subsequently investigate and manage the problem. |
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http://www.icu.mcgill.ca/Teaching/acute_respiratory_failure.htm
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| | Liver Disease |
| | A biopsy of the liver (usually performed when the ultrasound is done) is needle to verify the diagnosis. | | | The liver can be thoroughly visualized and palpated during an exploratory surgery. | | | The edges of this liver are very sharp and clearly outline its borders. |
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| | Learning About Heart Failure |
| | heart failure may be easier if you understand what's happening inside the body. | | | If the ventricle loses its ability to relax normally (diastolic failure) because the muscle has become stiff, the heart can't properly fill with blood during the resting period between each beat. | | | Heart failure occurs when any of these chambers lose their ability to keep up with the amount of blood flow. |
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| | What Is a Growth Disorder? |
| | Failure to thrive may also be a symptom of another problem, such as an infection or a digestive problem. | | | A growth disorder is any type of problem in infants, kids, or teens that prevents them from meeting realistic expectations of growth. | | | One or both parents or other close relatives of these children often experienced a similar "late-bloomer" growth pattern. |
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http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/endocrine/growth_disorder.html
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| | Respiratory failure |
| | A patient with ventilatory failure is prone to gasp for breath, and may use the neck muscles to help expand the chest. | | | One common type of hypoxemic failure, occurring in both adults and prematurely born infants, is respiratory distress syndrome, a condition in which fluid or tissue changes prevent oxygen from passing out of the air sacs of the lungs into the circulating blood. | | | Respiratory failure is nearly any condition that affects breathing function or the lungs themselves and can result in failure of the lungs to function properly. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 6, Ch. 66, Respiratory Failure |
| | In acute ventilatory failure, impedance of chest inflation is difficult to assess precisely, except during mechanical ventilation, when it is best gauged by simple measures of chest mechanics (eg, airway resistance and respiratory system compliance). | | | In current practice, positive pressure ventilation (PPV) is the only form of support for acute respiratory failure. | | | Respiratory failure: Impairment of gas exchange between ambient air and circulating blood, occurring in intrapulmonary gas exchange or in the movement of gases in and out of the lungs. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 17, Ch. 222, Renal Failure |
| | Hyperkalemia is infrequent (except for hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism or K-sparing diuretic therapy) until end-stage renal failure, when intake may need to be restricted to <= 50 mmol/day. | | | Cardiomyopathy (hypertensive, ischemic) and renal retention of Na and water may lead to congestive heart failure or dependent edema. | | | In early renal failure (GFR > 50 mL/min, serum phosphate < 5 mg/dL [< 1.6 mmol/L]), dietary phosphorus < 1 g/day is sufficient to delay secondary hyperparathyroidism. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Heart failure |
| | Your doctor can provide a safe and effective exercise plan based on your degree of heart failure and how well you do on tests that check the strength and function of your heart. | | | The gastrointestinal tract and extremities (right-sided heart failure) | | | Heart failure is usually a chronic illness, and it may worsen with infection or other physical stressors. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000158.htm
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| | Topic Review - Congestive Heart Failure |
| | The prototype of acute heart failure is the patient who is entirely well but who suddenly develops a large myocardial infarction or rupture of a cardiac valve. | | | Vasoconstriction mediated by the adrenergic nervous system is largely responsible for this redistribution, which in turn may be responsible for many of the clinical manifestations of heart failure, such as fluid accumulation (reduction of renal flow), low grade fever (redistribution of cutaneous flow), and fatigue (reduction of muscle flow). | | | This redistribution is most marked when a patient with heart failure exercises, but as heart failure advances, redistribution occurs even in the basal state. |
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http://www.amc.edu/amr/archives/200201/review01.html
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| | CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE |
| | Tubulointerstital disease – All forms of chronic renal failure are associated with marked tubulointerstial injury (tubular dilatation, interstitial fibrosis), even if the primary process is a glomerulopathy. | | | Chronic renal failure (CRF) is defined as a permanent reduction in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) sufficient to produce detectable alterations in well-being and organ function. | | | These factors aggravate the progression of renal failure and are known as reversible aggravating factors. |
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http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/internalmed/nephro/webpages/Part_G.htm
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| | Liver Cancer |
| | The reason to avoid needling the liver is that there is about a 1 to 4% risk of seeding (planting) cancer cells from the tumor by the needle into the liver along the needle track. | | | Further, there is no practical role for nuclear medicine scans of the liver and spleen in the work-up for HCC. | | | Results were compared with those of a control group of 15 patients who underwent surgery but did not receive the drug. |
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http://www.janis7hepc.com/liver_cancer.htm
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| | Heart Failure |
| | Regular physical examinations are important, especially for those at high risk for heart failure. | | | Heart Failure is a condition where the heart becomes so weak that it has trouble pumping a normal amount of blood. | | | Damaged or stretched heart muscle, as is seen in heart failure, often impairs the electrical system that controls the normal, steady rhythm of the heartbeat. |
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http://www.naspe-patients.org/patients/heart_disorders/heart_failure
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| | GENOTROPIN® Â Human Growth Hormone Treatment |
| | Choose from the list below to learn more about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of growth failure due to these conditions in children and growth hormone deficiency in adults. | | | Your doctor will do tests to show if you have GHD. | | | In children experiencing rapid growth, curvature of the spine (scoliosis) may worsen. |
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http://www.genotropin.com/
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| | Nutropin for Growth Failure and Growth Hormone Deficiency |
| | Patients with growth failure in chronic renal insufficiency should have periodic checkups for a type of bone disease called renal osteodystrophy. | | | Remove the needle from the vial of medication. | | | Allow the alcohol to dry from the skin before inserting the needle. |
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http://www.nutropin.com/patient/1_10_nutropin.jsp
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