Causes of Pain in the Back Below the Right Shoulder Blade
Pain below the right shoulder blade has many potential causes, ranging from muscle strain to infections, fractures and tumors.
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Antibiotics to Treat Bronchitis
Bronchitis is the medical term for inflammation of the airways. The illness typically produces a persistent cough that may be accompanied by fever, breathing discomfort and production of phlegm. The illness may be short term, known as "acute" bronchitis, or long term, known as "chronic" bronchitis.
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Causes of Rectal Bleeding in Men
Rectal bleeding in men is caused by diseases of the rectum or other parts of the digestive tract. Rectal bleeding should be evaluated by a doctor to determine the cause. Some conditions that cause rectal bleeding are life threatening. Early diagnosis may simplify treatment and increase the chance of cure.
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Drugs That Improve Cardiac Ejection Fraction
Your heart has 4 chambers: an atrium and a ventricle each on the right and left sides. Between heartbeats, blood flows into the atria. It then passes into the ventricles and is pumped out to the body.
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What Are the Treatments for an Inflamed Colon?
Inflammation is the body's nonspecific response to a wide variety of abnormalities. The inflammatory response includes increased blood flow through and leakiness of the blood vessels at the site of the abnormality. White blood cells enter the site and attack the provocative agents.
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Factors That Will Increase Cardiac Output
Cardiac output is the amount of blood pumped out of one side of the heart in a minute. The average for a normal adult is approximately 5 liters per minute.
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Abdominal Pain After Colonoscopy
Standard colonoscopy involves the visual inspection of the rectum and large intestine by insertion of a flexible video camera through the anus. Approximately 5 to 10 percent of people report abdominal pain or discomfort after a colonoscopy, according to an October 2011 "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy"
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How to Increase Circulation in Lower Legs
Arteries supply leg muscles with the oxygen and nutrients essential for proper function. Atherosclerosis narrows or blocks the vessels, and the diminished blood supply produces symptoms, the earliest of which is pain or cramping during walking.
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Common Sites of Metastasis of Adenocarcinoma
Cancer is a category of diseases that occur throughout the body. These tumors grow rapidly at the original site and are capable of spreading metastatic tumors to other parts of the body.
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Side Effects of a Hole in Your Heart
Your heart has a right side and a left side. Each side consists of an upper chamber called the atrium and a lower chamber known as the ventricle. Blood normally flows from an atrium to a ventricle and then out of the heart.
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Signs and Symptoms of a Perforated Peptic Ulcer
Peptic ulcers are erosions of the tissues lining the upper digestive tract, particularly the stomach and first portion of the small intestine, the duodenum. They are often caused by a bacterial infection that compromises your defense against the acid produced in the stomach.
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What Are the Three Major Parts of the Cardiovascular System?
The human body has 11 major organ systems, each with specific functions and energy needs. The cardiovascular system, or CVS, serves all of them, delivering vital nutrients, picking up and distributing metabolic products and carrying away waste for elimination.
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Common Causes of Blood in Diarrhea
Bloody diarrhea represents a double abnormality. Diarrhea is defined as an excessive volume of stool, while blood in stool is never normal. The responsible diseases range from relatively mild infections that typically get better with minimal treatment to conditions that may be life-threatening.
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Abdominal Adhesions and C-Sections
When the abdominal organs are disturbed when they're moved during surgery or because of inflammatory disease, they may become stuck to each other by adhesions -- a form of scarring.
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Complications of Abdominal Hernia Mesh Repair
The development of implantable fabric meshes revolutionized hernia surgery. Your surgeon can choose to repair your hernia by pulling together your natural tissues or by using mesh to bridge the abnormal opening without creating any tension.
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End-Stage Congestive Heart Failure Signs and Symptoms
The entire body relies upon the heart's ability to pump that's blood rich in nutrients and oxygen. When the heart is damaged by high blood pressure, heart attack, infections or other diseases, other organs begin to show symptoms of damage.
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Stage 4 Breast Cancer Life Expectancy
Breast cancers are assigned to 1 of 4 stages at the time of initial diagnosis and treatment. Stage is determined by the size of the cancer and whether it has spread to lymph nodes under the arm or to more distant parts of the body.
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What Are the Last Stages of Pancreatic Cancer Like?
Pancreatic cancer is usually particularly aggressive. In the U.S., there will be approximately 45,000 pancreatic cancer diagnoses in 2013 and nearly 40,000 deaths.
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How to Recover From Hernia Surgery
A hernia is the protrusion of a body part through an abnormal opening, and curing it requires surgery to reposition the part and close the opening. There are 2 major goals in recovery from surgery: returning to normal activity and reducing the chance the hernia will return.
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Symptoms of Clogged Arteries in the Neck
Four blood vessels in the neck carry oxygen and nutrients to the brain -- the right and left carotid arteries and the right and left vertebral arteries. The carotids are much larger than the vertebrals and nourish a correspondingly larger portion of the brain.
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