Tag: lungs
Doctors make one lung compatible with all patients
Blood type is one of the sources of incompatibility between a donor and a recipient during a transplant. Canadian doctors have developed a rapid method to change the blood type…
Uzun Covid: Hidden damage in the lungs could be detected with new scanning technique
A small pilot study in the UK shows that some people with ‘long Covid’ may have hidden damage to their lungs. The researchers used a new scanning method with xenon…
70-year-old drug protects lungs from Covid-19
Disulfiram is prescribed to treat alcoholism, but researchers from the Weil Medical Collegein the United States, have also observed that it reduced the damage caused by the coronavirus in the…
Post-Covid respiratory problems associated with routinely undetectable lung abnormalities
Breathless patients after Covid-19, however, show no problem on lung scans. But another more thorough examination revealed a dysfunction in the exchanges between the pulmonary alveoli and the blood. You…
Breathing exercises that strengthen the lungs of those who have coronavirus!
Physiotherapist Çağıl Ertürk, who conveys the strengthening breathing exercises for the lungs that are most worn out due to the Covid-19 virus, said, “We become more prepared against the Covid…
Breathing exercise that prepares your lungs for Covid! ‘Like a loaded gun’
It has long been known that people with healthy lungs and immune systems are luckier against the virus. In this sense, the importance of the lungs, where the Covid-19 virus…
How does SARS-Cov-2 spread through the respiratory tract?
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is now recognized and it has been shown that the cells of the respiratory mucosa are the main targets for binding and penetrating the virus into…