Heart Disease Stent and Angioplasty: A stent is a mess tube used to treat narrow or weak arteries (blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to other parts of the body). The stent is placed in the artery as part of an Angioplasty procedure. Angioplasty restores blood flow into narrow or blocked arteries. The stent helps to support the inner wall of the artery after the angioplasty. Doctors also place stents in weak arteries to improve blood flow and prevent arteries from bursting.
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CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTION The emergence and advancements of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have changed the way teaching and learning processes are being conducted. Among the ICT tools mobile phones are the mostly owned and used among the people. Learning through mobile phones is termed as mobile learning or M- learning. Mobile phones have a potential of improving the teaching and learning processes‚ as the tools are cheap compared to other ICT tools. The current study
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A. Introduction The world has changed largely because of science and technology. It brought us modern and high-tech devices that in the past seemed to be impossible to attain. Undeniably‚ through man’s intelligence we have reach a modern world where technology reigns and everything seems to be possible. It proves that man’s attitude is vast and powerful‚ that even the most mind blogging problem could be solved and even the minutes of details could be discovered. With the progress the world has
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Smoking causes the majority of lung cancers in smokers. The amount of lung cancer is powerfully connected with cigarette smoking‚ with about 90% of lung cancers rising ‚as a result of tobacco use. The risk of lung cancer rises with the number of cigarettes smoked over time; doctors state to this risk in terms of pack-years of smoking history. Doctors believe smoking causes lung cancer by damaging the cells that mark the lungs. When one breathes in cigarette smoke‚ which is full of cancer-causing
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cancer‚ also the deadliest is Lung Cancer. Lung Cancer is the uncontrolled magnification of anomalous cells in one our both lungs. These aberrant cells do not carry out the functions of mundane lung cells and do not develop into salubrious lung tissues. As they grow‚ the anomalous cells can compose tumors and interfere with the functioning of the lungs‚ which provides oxygen to the body via blood. There are two main
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TUTORIAL 5 HEART FAILURE Pathophysiology B. Left-sided HF SOB A. Right-sided HF Orthopnea Edema in the feet‚ ankles‚ legs‚ liver‚ & abdomen. If the amount of fluid is fluid accumulates in the abdomen. Fluid accumulation in the liver or stomach nausea & loss of appetite. Eventually‚ food is not absorbed well loss of weight & muscle. This condition is called Cardiac Cachexia Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea Tiredness & weakness A sudden accumulation of a high amount
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our patients use to improve the function of their lungs. This main underlying principle is that breathing can be exercised to train the expansion of lungs capacity (Potter‚ Perry‚ Stockert‚ & Hall‚ 2013). Patients who qualify for this intervention include those who have recently had a surgery‚ were under anesthesia‚ or have been placed on bed rest. Our main concern here is that these situations create opportunity for less activity within the lungs‚ which can put the patient at risk for pneumonia.
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every year‚ making it more lethal than car accidents and drug overdoses just to name a few. A smoker’s life expectancy is reduced by 15 to 25 years and is the single most preventable cause of death. With lung cancer being a primary result of cigarette smoking‚ there are also a wide array of other lung problems that occur as a result of smoking. Cigarettes contain 4000 chemicals‚ most of them are toxic. These ingredients affect everything from proper organ functioning to the efficiency of the body’s
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Aging and Congestive Heart Failure Rebecca E. Welch What Is Congestive Heart Failure? Congestive Heart Failure‚ also known as CHF‚ is a chronic condition that affects the chambers of your heart. You have four chambers: two atria in the upper half of the heart and two ventricles in the lower half. The ventricles send blood to your organs and tissue and the atria receives the blood as it circulates back from the rest of the body. CHF develops when your ventricles cannot pump in sufficient volume
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Interstitial lung disease covers a variety of lung conditions that cause thickening of the interstitium (lace-like network of tissue) around the alveoli of the lung‚ and is a category distinct from the obstructive airway diseases. The thickening can be due to inflammation‚ scarring‚ or extra fluid (edema). Interstitial lung disease (ILD) can be an acute‚ chronic‚ short-lived‚ or irreversible condition. All forms of ILD involve fibrosis (thickening and scarring of connective tissue). The scarring
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