Sentence examples for structural narrowing from inspiring English sources

The increased peripheral resistance in established hypertension is mainly attributable to structural narrowing of small arteries and arterioles, although a reduction in the number or density of capillaries may also contribute.

Furthermore, two members suggested entities involving structural narrowing of airways because of maternal smoking during pregnancy, and two members suggested an entity comprising children born preterm.

2a) Statically reduced subacromial space, due to structural narrowing (classic etiology).

In later pulmonary hypertension, the poor response to vasodilators may represent relative loss of the contractile component, as the increase in vascular resistance is due to mural fibrosis, structural narrowing, and obliteration of small distal pulmonary arteries [ 40].

There was a consensus that atopy and structural airway narrowing represented two mechanisms of current wheezing.

Wheeze due to structural airway narrowing might be a self limited disease, the natural course of which may not be influenced by treatment.

In structured discussions, these could be narrowed down to three entities which were linked to proposed mechanisms: a) allergic wheeze, b) non-allergic wheeze due to structural airway narrowing and c) non-allergic wheeze due to increased immune response to viral infections.

We propose a disease model for wheezing disorders in preschool children comprising three entities linked to specific mechanisms: a) allergic wheeze, b) non-allergic wheeze due to structural airway narrowing and c) non-allergic wheeze due to increased immune response to viral infections.

However, for the purpose of this study, the panel members agreed on a final set of 3 entities (Table 2) that plausibly explain the observed heterogeneity of childhood wheezing disorders: Allergic wheeze, non-allergic wheeze due to structural airway narrowing and non-allergic wheeze due to increased immune response to viral infections.

The observed differences in the hydraulic properties between the TWW-irrigated samples and the control ones in this specific matric potential range, albeit the similarity in their ESP, suggest that long term irrigation with TWW affected structural porosity via narrowing macro- and mesopores (> 70 and 30 70 μm, respectively).

Patients with negative anti-CCP2 tests throughout follow-up had less structural damage (erosions, narrowing and total score) than did patients with increasing anti-CCP2 concentrations.