Dr. Sushrut R Patel MD

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• Home Remedies for Pleurisy

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• Woman with Cystic Fibrosis Celebrates 40th Birthday with 40 Acts of Kindness

  One woman is making it her mission to spread kindness--among anger, hope among fear, and love among hate. Kelly Asbell is that woman.Spending too many years in fearWednesday, March 21, 2018, was Kelly Asbell’s 40th birthday, a date she never imagined seeing. At age ten, Kelly was diagnosed with...

• 6 Reasons Why You Are Coughing Up Green Mucus

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• Airway Dehydration May Lead to Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms

  The mucous membranes in the airways of people with cystic fibrosis produce mucus that is thick and viscous, more solid than is produced by healthy people, which leads to all sorts of problems in the patient.As anyone with CF knows, the reason the mucus thickens is because the proteins that form the...

• Cystic Fibrosis Breakthrough in Left Ventricular Cardiac Disturbances

  Cystic fibrosis may be one of the most common autosomal recessive lethal diseases, but there remains much that is unknown about it. It has been established that the disease causes chronic pulmonary disease and is also capable of leading to cor pulmonale with right ventricular dysfunction, but it was...