There are no recent nationwide figures on food choking. In 2001, about 17,500 children 14 and younger were treated in emergency departments for choking, and 60 percent of the episodes were caused by food. In 2000, 160 children died from an obstruction of the respiratory tract.
balloon sinuplasty is a procedure that ear nose and throat surgeons may use for the treatment of blocked sinusespatients diagnosed with sinusitis but not responding to medications may be candidates for sinus surgeryalloon sinuplasty is a procedure that ear nose and throat surgeons may use for the treatment of blocked sinuses
H&E stain. In histo pathology, ballooning degeneration, formally ballooning degeneration of hepatocytes, is a form of liver parenchymal cell (i.e. hepatocyte) death. The name is derived from the fact that the cells undergoing this form of cell death increase in size (balloon).It is generally considered a form of apoptosis, and is a descriptor used in the context of inflamed fatty liver (steatohepatitis), which may be due to obesity or alcohol.lso, ballooned cells have (small) pyknotic nuclei or nuclei that are undergoing karyorrhexis, i.e. in the process of disintegrating. The cytoplasm of cells undergoing ballooning degeneration is wispy/cobweb-like, while adipocyte-like cells have a clear cytoplasm or a vacuolated one.