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Results 1 - 10 of 23 for Inflammation
  1. Managing Your COPD Medications Video (American Lung Association)  
    ... symptoms. Long-acting medicine reduces the swelling and inflammation in your airways and prevents symptoms. These medications ... associated with asthma and COPD. They decrease the inflammation process to help improve lung function. Bronchodilator Bronchodilators ...
  2. Anal Abscess and Fistula Video (American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons)  
    ... of providing controlled drainage, thereby allowing all the inflammation to subside and form a solid tract of ... with a seton in place. Once all the inflammation has resolved, and a mature tract has formed, ...
  3. ... and cause an infection. The infection can cause inflammation and lung damage that worsens over time. There ... sometimes called nodular bronchiectasis. The NTM infection causes inflammation of the airways, which over time causes them ...
  4. ... 4% of the people with CF. It causes inflammation in the lungs and can cause further scarring ... flare-ups. Treatment of ABPA has two parts. Inflammation in the lung is treated with corticosteroids. Fungal ...
  5. What Is Asthma? Video (Nemours Foundation)  
    ... Anti-inflammatory medicines work over time to ease inflammation, which reduces swelling of the airways and limits ... 7 days. These work more quickly to reduce inflammation when inhaled medicines aren’t quite enough. What ...
  6. Thyroid Scan and Uptake Video (American College of Radiology) (Radiological Society of North America)  
    ... material. They accumulate in tumors or regions of inflammation. They can also bind to specific proteins in ... areas of abnormality, such as lumps (nodules) or inflammation determine whether thyroid cancer has spread beyond the ...
  7. Head CT Video (Radiological Society of North America) (American College of Radiology)  
    ... which may be causing hearing problems. determine whether inflammation or other changes are present in the paranasal ... CT scans . CT is not sensitive in detecting inflammation of the meninges —the membranes covering the brain. ...
  8. Body MRI Video (American College of Radiology) (Radiological Society of North America)  
    ... and abnormalities of the bile ducts and pancreas. inflammation of the bowel caused by Crohn's disease and ... younger patients malformations of the blood vessels and inflammation of the vessels (vasculitis). assessing a fetus in ...
  9. Heart Valve Problems and Causes Video (American Heart Association)  
    ... require treatment. Calcification due to aging – Lipid deposits, inflammation, fibrosis and calcification can lead to thickening of ...
  10. Pediatric CT Video (American College of Radiology) (Radiological Society of North America)  
    ... from a distant site airway disease such as inflammation of the bronchi (breathing passages) birth defects trauma ...
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