Pulmonary hypertension

“Prevention is better than cure,” stands good for the current issue-“An attempt to cut back the Pulmonary Embolism (PE) related death rate,” if everyone can follow the simple preventive measures and get diagnosed on time. The truth is, anyone can suffer a PE or deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which is the most common trigger for PE. The recent striking rise in cases of PE has provoked me to focus on this and thus alert every person possible to follow every possible preventive measure to avoid /delay…

STRUCTURE The heart wall is composed of three layers of tissues: pericardium, myocardium and endocardium (Wilson, Waugh and Ross, 1996). Label structures of the heart for the diagram. Aorta is the major artery that carries oxygenated blood to the body. Pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood from the lungs into the heart. Left atrium is one of the left upper chambers that takes oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps it into the left ventricle which carries it to the body (MedicineNet, 2016).…

The article, Mass Transport in an Anatomically Realistic Human Right Coronary Artery, written by M.R Kaazempur-Mofrad and C.R. Ethier, analyzes mass transport patterns in a realistic right coronary artery model and looks at what affects mass transport from blood to the wall of the artery. The researchers were looking for any relationships between atherosclerosis, a disease of the arteries characterized by built up plaque on their inner walls, and hemodynamic and mass transport patterns. To…

known as a congenital heart defect or the more common term is the transposition of the great arteries(TGA). TGA is when the two main arteries, the pulmonary artery and the aorta, are switched in position, or "transposed". As a normal heart, deoxygenated blood returning to the heart from the body is pumped from the right side of the heart through the pulmonary artery to the lungs and to the left side of the heart then back out to the rest of the body with oxygenated blood and the cycle repeats.…

According to Schouten et al (2008), sepsis involves the activation of the coagulation cascade coupled with down-regulation of anticoagulation and fibrinolysis. An intricate link between inflammation and coagulation exists within the body (Neligan, 2006). When a pathogen is present in the bloodstream or when tissue injury occurs, an inflammatory response occurs. The response causes a stimulation of the immune system to produce interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis…

Beneficial effects of the beta adrenergic antagonists in the treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is not uncommon for the patients to present with two or more disease states at the same time. Thus, the management of such concomitant disease states may be pharmacologically challenging as it is, for example, in the treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and hypertension (HTN) with a compelling indication of the post-myocardial infarction (post-MI).…

Lesson 8 – Problem Pitch Bibliography “Research We’re Watching.” Harvard Women’s Health Watch 22.9 (2015):8. Health Source – Consumer Edition. Web. 11 June 2015. The main point of this article is to inform the reader about research being watched by Harvard Health Publication regarding the benefits to an individual’s health from eating peanuts on a regular basis, why women fall and the symptoms of a heart attack in a female. I was interested in the symptoms of a heart attack for a woman as the…

Data Analysis Sedentary Lifestyle Health Concerns The ability of a company’s wellness program to mitigate the sedentary lifestyle health concerns will be dependent understanding the types of health concerns employees will potentially experience due to a sedentary lifestyle at work. Understanding the type of health concerns a sedentary office position may impose on an employee would drive the required types of activities and company support to participate in these activities to reduce or…

Everyone has their own problems they have to deal with everyday. Some people have more difficult problems to deal with than others. For example some peoples problems maybe to study for an exam. Others may just be trying to get through another day. People with disorders like anorexia struggle to live everyday. Anorexia is a disorder that means people won 't eat for days to the point where they almost die because they psychologically believe that their fat. Many people in the world that have this…

Introduction: Our modern society is engaged in pursuing a healthy and active lifestyle in order to avoid common health problems such as obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes mellitus to name a few. Exercise duration, frequency and intensity all are relevant in triggering physiological responses in our bodies. For example, skeletal muscles demand an increase in oxygen and substrates and simultaneously remove carbon dioxide and metabolites (Burton et al., 2004). Furthermore, studies have…