...up into the respiratory tract. The patient could aspirate solid food that could travel into the airway and the lungs and cause damages. Gastric acid could also travel back up...
...The physician makes one or more small incisions in the side of the chest, below the underarm. One lung is deflated to gain access to the sympathetic nerve chain. An...
...other symptoms may arise, including:[12] Pericarditis Pleuritis, inflammation of the tissues lining the lungs and chest cavity pigmented spots Encephalopathy Difficulty staying awake Peripheral neuropathy, causing numbness and tingling in...
...the lungs, nervous system, and brain instead of – or as well as – the external areas of the body. This is more likely to happen in cases where a...
...June 3, 2016. Accessed August 29, 2017. ↩ ↩ Wikipedia. “Arteriosclerosis.” July 12, 2017. Accessed August 29, 2017. ↩ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. “What is atherosclerosis?” June 22,...
...disease risk factors British Heart Foundation. “Cardiovascular disease.” Accessed September 25, 2017. ↩ ↩ National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. “Know the Differences: Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Disease, Coronary Heart Disease.”...
...if it’s in the lungs, renal angiography if it’s in the kidneys, and extremity arteriography if it’s in the extremities like the arms and legs. It can also be used...
...a large cut (about 25cm long) in the chest to gain access to the heart. The heart is then stopped with its function turned over to a heart-lung bypass machine....
...to the lung, and (4) aortic, which delivers oxygenated blood from the heart to other blood vessels of the body. Their job can be classified into two: open themselves to...
...region can cause serious heart problems unless they are treated early on. If the arteriovenous fistula develops in the lungs, patients can experience coughing of blood and clubbing of fingers....