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Patients, who become progressively weaker as the disease proceeds, often die of pneumonia or asphyxiation, and often suffer severe emotional disturbances...
...first indication that the disease could be tamed if not cured came in 1987, when physicians discovered how to prevent pneumocystis pneumonia, a secondary infection of the lungs that caused one-third of AIDS deaths. At the + time, pneumocystis was treated with a drug called pentamidine, which was given intravenously. Thanks to the efforts of a network of doctors organized by the American Foundation for AIDS Research, clinicians learned that, when the drug was sprayed into the lungs, it dramatically reduced the recurrence of the disease. In addition, lab tests can now predict who is at risk for developing pneumocystis...
...group of Medical School researchers has discovered a bizarre twist on the harmful effects of car exhaust and cigarette smoke: nitric oxide, a component of both pollutants, can help treat a deadly type of pneumonia...
...Pneumonia plugs up the lung's air spaces, reducing the surface area available for the lungs to exchange gas with the blood. Nitric oxide, produced naturally by organ linings as a hormone to dilate blood vessels, works by improving gas exchange efficiency in the remaining unclogged spaces...
ARDS is an often fatal form of pneumonia which claimed the life of Muppet originator Jim Henson...