Pulmonary Hypertension

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Labored breathing can be normal if it's during exercise or intense activity.  However, labored breathing can also be caused by heart attacks, heart failure, or COPD.  Therefore, seek medical attention for labored breathing to properly treat the underlying cause. Breathing generally requires no deliberate effort, but if you suddenly feel like you're straining to inhale and exhale, you may be experiencing labored breathing.  "Simply breathing fast is not labored breathing. Labored breathing in the medical sense is thought of as 'work of breathing,'" says Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS, an assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. If labored breathing occurs abruptly for no apparent reason,...

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Introduction Heart failure (HF) is a progressive clinical syndrome resulting from various cardiac disorders. Galectin-3 promotes adverse cardiac remodeling leading to chronic heart failure (CHF). Aim To estimate the levels of galectin-3 in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients and controls and to determine the association between galectin-3 levels with age, gender, and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Materials and methods The levels of plasma galectin-3 were estimated in CHF patients from January 2013 to October 2013 at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The study was a case-control study. A total of 55 CHF patients were recruited as cases, and 55 controls were enrolled for the study. Participants' profiles were documented, and 5 mL of blood sample was collected. Galectin-3 levels in plasma were estimated by using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Data were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 version. Mean, SD, and percentages were...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is when the pressure of blood pumping against artery walls is higher than it should be. It's defined as having a systolic (upper number) blood pressure reading of 130 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) or higher, and/or a diastolic (lower number) blood pressure reading of 80 mmHg or higher. High blood pressure is considered a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and it can also damage the brain, kidneys, and eyes. Nearly half of all U.S. adults have high blood pressure, including nearly 75% of those over 60 years old. High blood pressure usually doesn't have symptoms, which is why it's known as the "silent killer." There are two types of high blood pressure: primary (also called essential) hypertension, which doesn't have a known cause, and secondary hypertension, which is the result of other conditions that raise blood pressure. Hypertension can be hereditary, which means if your parents o...

Introduction Asthma is a common chronic airway inflammatory disease that requires continuous management with anti-inflammatory drugs. The Global INitiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines suggest that asthma medications should be prescribed in asthma, although they do not specify specific active ingredients. 1 Many patients with asthma use different asthma medications; however, there are insufficient data on the optimal combination of active ingredients. While there is currently increased availability of different categories of medication and regimens for the treatment of asthma, comparison studies between active ingredients or drug combination type are currently lacking and findings are inconsistent. 2,3 Many clinicians are aware of the need to prescribe anti-inflammatory asthma medication in patients with asthma and the main difficulty concerns the choice of the optimal active ingredient for the individual patient. To assist clinicians in prescribing the appropriate regimen, large...