(n.) The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
(n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(2) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(3) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(4) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
(5) The degree of venous congestion in the lungs of patients with mitral stenosis varies with the phases of respiration.
(6) Stroke was the cause of 2 and congestive heart failure the cause of 4 deaths.
(7) In this ewe, and in 4 of 7 other sheep diagnosed as having abomasal emptying defects, aspartate transaminase and sorbitol dehydrogenase activities were high, and histopathologic evidence of hepatic congestion and ischemia was found.
(8) Several studies in the past have shown the long-term beneficial effects of beta-blockers in congestive heart failure.
(9) Case 2: A 40-year-old man with congestive heart failure and inflammatory signs had aortic and mitral regurgitation.
(10) These observations suggest that the degree of sodium depletion plays an important role in the tendency for angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors to induce renal failure in patients with congestive heart failure and moderate renal insufficiency.
(11) Thus ACE-inhibitors are to be considered for all patients requiring medical therapy for congestive heart failure.
(12) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
(13) In the other 6 patients with congestive heart failure and in 4 controls, saralasin produced either no change or slight increases in systemic vascular resistance.
(14) In patients with preexistent congestive heart failure (CHF), predicted cumulative survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 78%, 69%, and 57%, respectively, for group 1 (n = 23) and 90%, 83%, and 75%, respectively, for group 2 (n = 16).
(15) Atropine significantly reduced rhinorrhea, the levels of histamine, and TAME-esterase activity as well as the osmolality of recovered lavage fluids, but had no effect on nasal congestion or albumin.
(16) Characteristics of the poisoning include a delay between exposure and onset of symptoms; early systemic toxicity with congestive changes in the lungs and oliguric renal failure; prominent cerebellar and Parkinsonian neurologic symptoms as well as seizures and coma in severe cases; and psychiatric disturbances that can last from months to years.
(17) When he arrived at our hospital, congestive heart failure, cyanosis of his lower extremities and weak femoral pulses were observed.
(18) 3) In 2 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy under severe congestive heart failure defects of MIBG uptake with normal Tl uptake were noted (Sympathetic neuronal function was depleted in spite of normal coronary perfusion.
(19) Patients with acute congestive cardiac failure had elevated plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) which fell towards normal levels with successful diuretic therapy.
(20) The cardiovascular properties revealed by this study strongly suggest that MS-857 will exert a beneficial effect in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
Constipation
Definition:
(n.) Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
(n.) A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
(2) In an open, prospectively randomised, parallel group study, 124 patients with a history of constipation for more than three weeks were treated with either 15 ml bd of lactulose (increasing to 60 ml daily if necessary) or one sachet bd of ispaghula.
(3) In general patients with diarrhoea were more sensitive to stimuli than those with constipation.
(4) Pelvic floor location and mobility did not differ between controls and constipated patients.
(5) Chronic constipation is a very frequent disease in western countries but fibres can often solve the problem.
(6) Pancreatic polypeptide release was reduced in patients with slow transit constipation, but increased in those with functional diarrhoea.
(7) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
(8) Two kinds of radiopaque pellets were ingested as markers to determine GITT in 60 normal subjects, 7 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), 10 patients with idiopathic constipation (IC) and 8 patients with other diseases.
(9) There was a history of facial edema and constipation, which have been managed with "Kanpo medicine (Chinese medicine)" and laxatives for several years.
(10) A 58-year-old man complained of dull left lower quadrant pain and constipation.
(11) The irritable colon syndrome comprises two predominant symptom patterns -- "spastic colon" with pain and constipation, and painless "nervous diarrhea".
(12) There seems no doubt that following rectopexy there is an increased tendency to constipation.
(13) The constipated group required a greater degree of rectal distension than control subjects to induce rectal contractions, anal relaxation and a desire to defaecate.
(14) The effect of Plantago ovata on patients with chronic constipation (CC) with or without irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been assessed by a double blind study comprising 20 patients with CC of which 10 had associated IBS.
(15) Certain forms of severe constipation, unresponsive to medical treatment and classified as "idiopathic", have been thought to be anatomical anomalies due to anterior-displacement of the anus.
(16) Those symptoms occurring more frequently in PD patients than in controls included abnormal salivation, dysphagia, nausea, constipation, and defecatory dysfunction.
(17) Transit time is shortened in patients with diarrhea, lengthened in patients with constipation.
(18) Patient beliefs that can block pain management include beliefs about self-concept and the aging process; the patient role; health professionals; pain; and consequences of treatment, including addiction, xerostomia, falls, constipation, and sexual and personality problems.
(19) By convention, people with simple constipation are not usually included in this group of patients.
(20) The incidence of systemic symptoms like fever and anorexia, alternating diarrhoea and constipation, peritoneal and lymph node involvements and associated pulmonary lesions were less frequently observed.