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intestinal tb symptoms :: Article Creator Parotitis (Parotid Gland Swelling) Medically reviewed by John Carew, MD Parotitis is inflammation of one or both parotid glands, two large salivary glands responsible for making approximately 50% of your saliva. The parotid glands are located in each cheek over the jaw and in front of the ears. Saliva is important for health as it contains electrolytes, which support many bodily functions from transporting water in the body to supporting nerve and muscle function. Saliva also contains enzymes, such as salivary amylase which helps break down carbohydrates. Parotitis occurs equally among all genders, but some types of parotitis, such as acute bacterial parotitis, are more common in older populations. Types There are several types of parotitis, based on what causes the parotitis to develop and whether the parotitis is acute or chronic. Acute parotitis is when symptoms like pain and swelling come on s...

mdr tb :: Article Creator Experts Developing Immune-enhancing Therapies To Treat TB: Study Experts are developing revolutionary immune-enhancing medicines known as host-directed therapies, which employ the body's immune system to target TB, to tackle even drug-resistant strains of the illness. Associate Professor Susanna Brighenti, Centre for Infectious Medicine (CIM), ANA Futura at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, will give a presentation at this year's ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona. The reported global number of people newly diagnosed with TB was 7.5 million in 2022, causing an estimated 1.3 million deaths. An estimated 410 000 cases and 160 000 deaths were due to multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). "Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) have evolved a remarkable ability to manipulate the human immune response and undermine antimicrobial effector functions in host immune cells," explains Assoc Profess...

lung infection chest x ray :: Article Creator Woman Died Of Aggressive Lung Infection - Inquest A mum-of-three died due to an "aggressive" bacterial infection which caused lung damage she could not recover from, a coroner has concluded. Hannah Plumb, 32, died at University Hospital Coventry in December 2022. An inquest heard that Ms Plumb died of natural causes, but that hospital staff did miss a medical problem which came up on two X-rays while she was in critical care. Dr Christopher Bassford told the inquest that he did not believe this impacted the outcome of her death, but Ms Plumb's partner of 14 years, Gavin Hughes, said he still thought it amounted to neglect. At the inquest on Thursday, Dr Bassford said the pneumothorax, also known as a collapsed lung, external, affected one of her lungs and was "moderate". It was captured on two X-rays but was only spotted by a team from a different hospital more than 12...

causes of restrictive lung disease :: Article Creator Obstructive And Restrictive Lung Disease Doctors may classify lung conditions as obstructive lung disease or restrictive lung disease. Obstructive lung diseases include conditions that make it hard to exhale all the air in your lungs. People with restrictive lung disease have trouble fully expanding their lungs with air. Obstructive and restrictive lung disease share the same main symptom: shortness of breath when you exert yourself. People with obstructive lung disease have shortness of breath because it's hard for them to exhale all the air from their lungs. Because of damage to the lungs or narrowing of the airways inside the lungs, the exhaled air comes out more slowly than it should. At the end of a full exhalation, too much air may linger in the lungs. The most common causes of obstructive lung disease are: Obstructive lung disease makes it harder to breathe, especially when y...

copd and lung cancer :: Article Creator Lung Cancer With COPD Leads To Poor Sleep, Quality Of Life Poor sleep quality among those with lung cancer and COPD emphasize the need to develop effective assessment strategies. asian woman sleep well: © ryanking999 - stock.Adobe.Com Black patients with lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) demonstrated poorer sleep quality compared with those without COPD, highlighting the need for effective assessment strategies, according to findings presented at the 49th Oncology Nursing Society Congress. "Our assessment study provides new evidence that sleep is an important clinical problem among this minority population and between these diagnostic groups," Amanda R. Myhren-Bennett, M.S.N., RN, University of South Carolina, said during the presentation. "And this provides support for the need to develop effective assessment strategies to understand and improve sleep ...

testicular tuberculosis :: Article Creator Analysis Spotlights Sperm Defects In Month After COVID Infection, But Not At 90 Days iLexx / iStock In the 30 days after COVID-19 infection, total sperm count, sperm concentration, total sperm motility (movement), and progressive motility were significantly reduced in a cohort of Chinese men, with the most severe effects in those with moderate to high fever, researchers from Sichuan Provincial Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital report in Scientific Reports.  The researchers tracked semen quality in 58 men for up to 109 days after COVID-19 diagnosis and used a linear mixed-effects model to analyze semen parameters at different time points before and after infection. They noted that previous studies suggest that angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) facilitates SARS-CoV-2 entry into testicular cells, where it leads to testes injury and impairs sperm production. Higher fever, worse impact While ther...