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How to model a double lung transplant


2011
06.24

How to model a double lung transplantMarcela Alejandra Arroyo has 35 years, mother of a 9 and is hospitalized in intensive care at the Favaloro Foundation for a week. You need a double lung transplant last Friday and went into national emergency.

Through his family, tries to make known their situation and raise awareness about the importance of donation. “We all imagine as donors and is very hard, but we can all be recipients,” said his sister Martha.

Marcela took about four years to reach a diagnosis, until it was detected in 2010: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (“a progressive disease so terrible,” said Marta). Before that, he suffered increasingly severe pneumonia, which worsened his health situation.

The family was grateful for the emphasis on treatment at the Favaloro Foundation, as well as the company where the woman works.

For four months Marcela is part of the waiting list INCUCAI. His aides appeal to the goodwill of those who go through the difficult situation of losing a loved one with a single security: “They will be helping someone else go on living.”

Why male factors greatly affect the fertility of productivity


2010
11.27

Why male factors greatly affect the fertility of productivityMale factors are projected to produce about thirty percent of all infertility problems and help them in another twenty percent. Whatever the conventional wisdom has to say about whose “fault” the problem is that the figures indicate that the responsibility is divided almost equally between the sexes. The studies initiated by the National Institutes of Health in six universities are studying the consequences of infertility-increased sexually transmitted diseases among youth. At greatest risk, are those aged between fifteen and nineteen regardless of their differences?

Production or sperm quality may be affected by congenital abnormalities and genetic lesions in the genital tract, heat, age, sperm agglutination, acute and chronic infection (often sexually transmitted infections) malnutrition, previous surgery, allergies, chronic diseases, environmental or occupational factors (such as radiation), varicose, or certain medications. These drugs include Tag met, used in the treatment of ulcer drugs used to treat cancer, and certain antibiotics (especially those used to treat tuberculosis).

Smoking also heavy marijuana and snuff in general, alcohol and stress can result in impotence or inability to ejaculate. Varicose, enlarged varicose veins of the spermatic cord are a potentially curable cause of male infertility. While this condition occurs in many men with normal, fertility has been found to be present in up to forty percent of infertile men. Half of all men with varicose have low sperm count or motility of sperm or other changes in semen analysis. Theories on the cause of these changes include heat, pressure and toxic substances dilated vessels.

Temporary or permanent damage to the male testes may occur because of a genital infection or systemic infection. Gonorrhea can do some damage in the male genital tract temporarily result in a marked decrease in sperm count. Mumps in an adult male may involve one or both testicles and can cause severe testicular damage. Fortunately, usually only one testicle and suffered serious decline in sperm count, though possibly restricted, usually compatible with fertility. Any systemic viral or bacterial infection can cause a temporary depression in sperm count. Because much of the evidence of infertility for women are more complicated and involve more risks than men, infertility testing often begins with the male. A semen analysis is a simple test that can provide a wealth of information.

How to know the signs of disease in our body


2010
11.23

How to know the signs of disease in our bodyAre you ill? Symptoms and signs are signs that the body sends to indicate that something is not working well and should ignore them
The body is composed of a number of bodies, equipment, systems and components which interact with each other perfectly, when this happens we can say that we are healthy, but when one of them is damaged, decreases or increases the body functions and disrupts become ill and this can be caused by many factors, which may be physical, environmental, social, emotional or mental.

However, as the human body is very wise and health conditions works perfectly, when something fails, contact us through symptoms or signs, from central nervous system and endocrine system, responsible for monitoring everything that happens on our body.
Symptoms and signs are only signs and no mean alone the presence of a particular disease, because each can occur in many diseases. The coincidence of several of them, together with a physical medical examination and sometimes through laboratory studies or special equipment are those that guide the physician to establish a correct diagnosis, i.e. to clearly identify the type of disease and thus we give appropriate treatment.

The symptoms are those statements that the affected person feels, but are not detectable by others, such as pain, fever, cramps, nausea, dizziness, cramps, heat, cold, fatigue, sleepiness, trouble breathing, insomnia, burning , cough, cold, fainting, itching, etc.
The signs are manifestations of the body that other people can easily notice, changes in skin color, paleness, bruising, rashes, blemishes, dark circles, loss or excessive weight gain, bloating, diarrhea, vomiting, fainting, watery eyes, red nose, bad breath and more.
Some of these symptoms or signs, are sporadic, can occur for any unexpected reaction as a shock, exposure to the sun for a long time and others, and may pass quickly, without meaning suffering from any disease.

However there are some warning signs, which are symptoms or signs but can be sporadic, that is momentary or accidental, may indicate that something starts to malfunction and can be very dangerous.

Among the warning signs to which we must make immediate case are: chest pain, shortness of breath, pain and numbness of limbs, blood in urine or stool, persistent headache, difficulty sleeping or difficulty awake, among others.
Any sign of alarm symptoms or signs, people must act immediately to avoid further, excessive costs or risk to life.

Why purple garlic in use for therapy


2010
11.05

Why purple garlic in use for therapyA new research team of scientists from the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Technology (Tequila), Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the University of Castillo-La Manchu (UCLM) has failed to show that purple garlic is a source of medicinal and therapeutic properties. Investigations not only reveal the health benefits that have purple garlic, but it also freeze-dried extracts were obtained (a process used to preserve food the astronauts) for medical or nutritional and pharmaceutical.

Ignacio Garcia, head and one of the key drivers of these studies, said that these investigations began in 2000 at the initiative of a natural student Pardoners (Cadence), where it is grown in abundance purple garlic, after putting in value of the antibiotic effects of illicit extracted from garlic

Initial investigations, which have been supported medical services Gastroenterological Unit of Hospital Ramón y Canal de Madrid, focused on analyzing the cause-effect relationship between garlic and helicobacter pylori, a bacterium responsible for gastritis, of stomach ulcer or cancer processes such as MALT lymphoma.

Grace explained that the research and study “exceeded initial expectations,” because after making the first tests it was found that the benefits of garlic purple “were higher than the drugs themselves that come against these diseases.”

After seeing the benefits of garlic, the research work has focused on carrying out a perfect freeze-drying process of garlic extract, a method that would allow the removal of water by vacuum drying and low temperatures, so that “prevents its degradation and ensures its retention period to four or five years. “

The group in Spain and in Europe has patented this method, according to Grace, so that others cannot copy the intellectual property of the product. Now, the research focused on analyzing other purple garlic’s therapeutic effects, such as fighting cholesterol, its role as a vasodilator and antithrombotic and anti-tumor effects.