Sentence examples for ischemia from inspiring English sources
'ischemia' is a valid and usable word in written English
It is used to refer to a condition of reduced blood supply to a body part, usually due to blockage of the arteries. For example, "The patient was diagnosed with cardiac ischemia due to a narrowing of his coronary arteries."
noun
Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (vasoconstriction, thrombosis or embolism).
Ischemic heart disease, an alternative term, is actually more correct because the syndromes described are all to some degree manifestations of myocardial ischemia (a lack of blood supply to the myocardium, or heart muscle).
The myocardial ischemia (reduced blood supply to the heart muscle) that causes angina is due to a disturbance of the balance between heart muscle demands and supply.
There are also features of coronary occlusion (blockage of a coronary artery) that indicate the presence of myocardial ischemia.
An increase in the rate of blood flow to a body part, which is referred to by the term congestion, or hyperemia, occurs during inflammation; a diminished blood flow to tissues is referred to by the term ischemia, or a local anemia.
This condition is particularly notable when the renal vessels are involved, creating a state of renal ischemia, occasionally creating hypertension, and possibly terminating in renal failure.
(4) Completed strokes cause reduction in blood supply (ischemia) and death of brain tissue as a result of severe starvation of blood (infarction).
Transient loss of vision in one eye, as if a curtain were being pulled over it, is one common sign of ischemia of the retina.
The same symptoms are also diagnosed as ischemic heart disease, because the symptoms result from the development of myocardial ischemia (reduced blood flow to the heart muscle).
The patients were treated at 70 hospitals in 17 countries from 1996 to 2000, and the report on the research was written by Dr. Dennis T. Mangano, founder of a nonprofit organization that paid for the study, the Ischemia Research and Education Foundation, in San Francisco.
Inverness Medical Innovations, Waltham, Mass., which makes home pregnancy tests, said it agreed to buy Ischemia Technologies, Denver, which makes a cardiac diagnostic test, for about $22.4 million in stock.
Three million women in the United States may have microvascular heart disease, said Dr. Bairey Merz, chairwoman of a government-sponsored study of the disorder, called Wise, for Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation.
