Crohn ’s disease is named after Burrill B. Crohn‚ the physician who described the disease in a paper written in 1972. Crohn ’s disease can also be referred to as Morbus Crohn ’s‚ Granulomatous Enteritis‚ Regional Enteritis‚ or Terminal Ileitis. Attacks of Crohn ’s disease may affect patients in their teens or early twenties‚ and tend to recur throughout the individual ’s life. The History of Crohn ’s Disease Crohn ’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of an undetermined cause that afflicts
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Lyme Disease Chief Complaint: Parents report that their son has been febrile for a few days and “he has been rubbing his right ear off and on”. SUBJECTIVE: HPI: A six-year-old male patient was brought into the clinic accompanied by both parents (mother and father). They said there son was feverish over the last few days reporting the highest fever of a 100.1. Parents noticed him recently touching his right ear as if he had an ear infection. The mother treated her son with Children’s Tylenol
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Alzheimer’s disease Classification and external resources Comparison of a normal aged brain (left) and the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s (right). Differential characteristics are pointed out. ICD-10 G30‚ F00 ICD-9 331.0‚ 290.1 OMIM 104300 DiseasesDB 490 MedlinePlus 000760 eMedicine neuro/13 MeSH D000544 GeneReviews NBK1161 Alzheimer’s disease (AD)‚ also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease‚ is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease‚ which worsens
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Huntington disease Name Institute Huntington Disease Introduction Shortage of information about Huntington disease (HD) and its non-clinical management inveigled me into a quest for journal articles about this comparatively rare illness. Having pored over scores of Journal of Clinical Nursing Issues‚ I stumbled across the article entitled “Exploring supportive care for individuals affected by Huntington disease and
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Narration I went to the Emergency Room for the first time when I was thirteen years old. It all came about when I was skateboarding in front of my grandma’s house and I tried to do a trick. I almost pulled it of‚ but I messed it up in the end and headed to the ground with my hands down. My right wrist was twisted the wrong way in the air when I landed hard on the ground‚ it just broke it. At first it did not hurt at all‚ but when I looked down at my warped and twisted wrist ‚ all of a sudden
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cytomegalovirus) 2. Maternal anoxia‚ anemia‚ placental infarcts‚ abruptio placentae‚ malNx. 3. Prenatal cerebral hemorrhage‚ maternal bleeding‚ maternal toxemia‚ Rh or ABO incompatibility 4. Prenatal anoxia‚ twisting or kinking of the cord 5. Genetic factors 6. Miscellaneous – toxins‚ drugs‚ radiation * Perinatal Factors 1. Anoxia from any cause a. Anesthetic and analgesic drugs administered during labor b. Prolonged labor (dec O2) c. Placental previa or abruptio
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January‚ 2013 H.S.B Project: DISEASES Teacher: ………………………………….. INTRODUCTION The difference between good health and disease is that health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans‚ it is the general condition of a person’s mind‚ body and spirit‚ usually meaning to be free from illness‚ injury or pain (as in “good health” or “healthy”) whiles a disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of
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Introduction Parkinson’s disease is a common disease facing many older people across the world. It affects the central nervous system and it impairs cognitive processes‚ motor skills and other functions. This disease mostly affects the older generation and it manifests itself with symptoms which include rigidity‚ tremor‚ postural instability‚ slowness in movement and others. Other symptoms include sleep difficulties‚ sensory and autonomic dysfunction. Parkinson’s disease has a high prevalence rate
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REPORTING OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES 8 Reporting of Notifiable Diseases: Syphilis Juanita Mitchell-Huntley Wilkes University What Process is Implemented for the Reporting of Notifiable Diseases? A notifiable infectious disease or condition is one for which regular‚ frequent‚ and timely information regarding individual cases is considered necessary for the prevention and control of the disease or condition (Adams‚ et al.‚ 2015). State regulations specify the diseases that must be reported
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Maykenzie Joy Freeman Health Cardiovascular Disease 3/30/2014 Cardiovascular Disease Assignment 1. Trace the path of a drop of blood from the time it enters the vena cava until it reaches your little finger. Be sure to include the types of blood vessels involved. Deoxygenated blood enters the right atrium from superior and inferior vena cava after having been circulated through the body. ----------------------- From the right atrium‚ blood moves to the right ventricle and is pumped through
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