One other patient died of a pulmonary embolism two months after a bone-marrow transplant.
"One of the commoner causes of sudden death is a pulmonary embolism that may occur a week to ten days later after a thrombosis formed, " Lord says.
Hospitalized after a motorcycle accident, Keating contracted bronchitis, exacerbated by pulmonary disease and a heart ailment.
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Over the past two years, for instance, he has published studies maintaining the Chantix anti-smoking pill is unsuitable for first-line use (read here and here) and a meta-analysis indicating the mist form of the Spiriva inhaler that is used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had a 52 percent increase in mortality risk compared with a placebo ( see this).
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Eight weeks ago, I was released from the hospital after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
She became comatose, and she died of a pulmonary embolism before church members finally brought her to the hospital.
Two weeks into the project, Stephens' husband was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a terminal illness, and placed on life support.
Patient B was taken to a nursing home but was readmitted the next day, when she died of a pulmonary oedema.
Verne Wisby, 68, suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease linked to smoking that can cause respiratory infections and breathing trouble.
In 2011, surgeons removed a large tumor from O'Connor's brain, and she suffered complications that included cognitive impairment and a pulmonary embolism, prosecutors said.
He recuperated and returned to Tashkent but on landing suffered severe back pains and was airlifted back to London with a pulmonary embolism in his lung.
He said the crew had to get out of their ambulance to find the flat in Baronson Gardens where 26-day-old Justin, who died of a pulmonary haemorrhage, lived.
But just months later it was cut short: His wife of 18 years died suddenly from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 42, and he committed himself to parenting his three teenagers full-time.
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Creed listened to her heart, which had a normal rhythm, and to her lungs, hearing the fine crackles of her pulmonary fibrosis but also a new wheeze.
Green, who has been practicing for two decades, and a UM colleague, biomedical engineer Scott Hollister, had been working for years toward a clinical trial to test the splint in children with pulmonary issues when they got a phone call from a physician in Ohio who was aware of their research.
The main point of the article is to explain why FDA is not taking action against Spiriva (generic name: tiotropium), a treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder sold by Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer, despite a meta-analysis that raised concerns.
After a number of measures to preserve his pulmonary valve, doctors replaced it last week with a porcine valve that should last 10 to 15 years, according to the website of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
The study of a sustained release oral formulation of the synthetic form of prostacylin showed that patients treated for pulmonary arterial hypertension did not achieve a statistically significant improvement in how far they were able to walk within six minutes by week 16 of the trial.
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Some conditions associated with congenital heart defects, such as pulmonary hypertension, come with a mortality rate for the mother or infant as high as 50%, Dr. Franklin says.
It is a remarkable comeback for Williams, who slipped as low as 175 in the rankings after missing almost a year with injury and a life threatening pulmonary embolism in 2011.
Adams told TMZ.com that West's death could have been caused by a heart attack, pulmonary embolism or massive vomiting.
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The suits alleging primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH), a nearly always fatal condition, are the most valuable--the kind Fleming wants to tee up for trial.
The University of Colorado researchers are studying molecular mechanisms of normal acclimatization in healthy people to gain new treatment ideas for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, a common lung disease.
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For example, another study published last month demonstrated that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were more likely to follow a fitness program using the Nintendo Wii than a traditional fitness program.
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Interestingly, the pulmonary drug-deliverer (which works similarly to a medical inhaler) is said to provide "a stronger kick" than smoking, but actually administers a smaller amount of nicotine to the body than your average Marlboro.
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Official conversations about medication in racing are a fairly common occurrence these days, many of them centering on the raceday use of furosemide, also known as Lasix or Salix, a diuretic that has been proven to reduce pulmonary bleeding in racehorses, bleeding that is often the result of strenuous exercise.
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Trained dogs were asked to sniff out a study group that included lung cancer patients, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, and healthy volunteers.
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Ernst is fifty years old, a native German who received his medical degree at the University of Heidelberg before training in pulmonary and critical-care medicine in the United States.
The closest thing to a real success, a two-drug combination known as fen-phen, helped people lose as much as 30 pounds a year by making them feel satiated, but it caused heart valve problems in some and pulmonary hypertension in others.
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