Most of us are familiar with the signs of acute inflammation. If you’ve ever had a swollen, sprained ankle or a fever from ...

Chronic inflammation fuels diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer Learn how modern life triggers it and ways to ...

A sore throat, for example, turns red and is painful because the immune system is fighting the infection to prevent it from spreading, which doctors call acute inflammation, said Dr. Moshe Arditi ...

Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas. Acute pancreatitis occurs when symptoms appear suddenly. These may include pain in the upper left abdomen that spreads to the back, fever, nausea ...

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is inflammation of the pancreas. It occurs suddenly and causes pain in the upper abdominal (or epigastric) region. The pain often radiates to your back. AP can also involve ...

Acute inflammation is a short-term process occurring in response to tissue injury, usually appearing within minutes or hours. It is characterized by five cardinal signs: pain, redness, immobility ...

In a long process of national 5 and international 6 validation, 2 international studies, 1 retrospective 7 and 1 prospective, 8 confirmed a significant predictive value of this classification in terms ...

Swelling, heat and pain are the three most common signs of acute inflammation, as immune cells try to fix an injury or infection. But, if the response doesn’t switch off once a health threat has ...

Background: Acute otitis media (AOM ... OS-8 scale showed mild TM inflammation (OS, 2–3) in 6%, moderate (OS, 4–5) in 59%, and severe (OS, 6–8) in 35%. In 54% of 126 bilateral AOM episodes ...

Lupus is an autoimmune condition that can cause pain, problems in multiple organs and systems of the body, inflammation, and complications that range from minor to life threatening. The body’s ...