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Mechanical Ventilation at Lower Level Among Patients Without Lung Injury Linked with Better Outcomes
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 8 months ago
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Mechanical ventilation is a life-saving strategy in patients with acute respiratory failure. However, unequivocal evidence suggests that mechanical ventilation has the potential to aggravate and precipitate lung injury...Ary Serpa Neto, M.D., M.Sc.,
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Apeiron, GSK begin phase IIa trial in Acute Lung Injury patients
Toronto :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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The study being sponsored by GSK, will involve patients with a positive diagnosis of ALI and will be conducted throughout the US and Canada...A phase I study in healthy volunteers also investigated the safety, tolerability and pharmacology profile of
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Depressive Symptoms and Impaired Physical Function Are Frequent and Long-Lasting after Acute Lung Injury
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Embargo expired: 12/9/2011 12:00 AM EST Source: Newswise Depressive symptoms and impaired physical function were common and long-lasting during the first two years following acute lung injury (ALI), according to a new study from Johns Hopkins
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Leptin Resistance May Prevent Severe Lung Disease in Patients with Diabetes
Chicago :: IL :: USA | over 2 years ago
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in individuals with type II diabetes, according to a study conducted by researchers in Chicago...The findings were published online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care
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Gene Protects Lung from Damage Due to Pneumonia, Sepsis, Trauma, Transplants
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Newswise Lung injury is a common cause of death among patients with pneumonia, sepsis or trauma and in those who have had lung transplants. The damage often occurs suddenly and can cause life-threatening breathing problems and rapid lung failure...
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Bone marrow stem-cell therapy could treat acute lung injury: Study
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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Researchers have found more evidence to prove that bone marrow stem cells could be used to treat acute lung injury in patients. Drs Michael A Matthay and Jae W Lee and their colleagues at the Cardiovascular Research Institute of the University of
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Chemist: Church burnt on purpose
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | almost 3 years ago
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A government chemist told a Sessions Court here that he was of the opinion that the Metro Tabernacle Church had been set on fire on purpose. Shaari Desa, 43, from the Chemistry Department, said petrol was found on samples fragments of wood and debris
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Stem Cells Restore Tissue Affected By ALI
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 3 years ago
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EDT Embargo expired: 5/17/2010 5:30 PM EDT Source: Newswise Human stem cells administered intravenously can restore alveolar epithelial tissue to a normal function in a novel ex vivo perfused human lung after E. coli endotoxin-induced acute lung
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Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant may help patients with lung, heart disorders
Mumbai :: India | over 3 years ago
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Human-derived umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells transplanted in an animal model could help in developing therapies for specific lung and heart disorders, according to two separate studies. For the studies, the researchers investigated the
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