Marfan Syndrome is caused by a genetic mutation. Marfan can be passed on from parents or can occur spontaneously. The disorder happens in the gene that enables your body to produce a protein that helps give connective tissue its elasticity and strength. The mutation results in an increase in a protein called transforming growth factor beta‚ or TGF-B. The increase causes the problems in the connective tissues of the body. Marfan Syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder. An autosomal recessive
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Dumping Syndrome My Digestive System Disorder essay is about the Dumping Syndrome. Dumping Syndrome occurs after meals in people who had gastric bypass surgery. The Dumping Syndrome has two type of forms the early dumping syndrome and late dumping syndrome. Dumping Syndrome causes dizziness sweating and weakness. To help decrease the symptoms of the dumping syndrome involves changes in diet and nutrition. Dumping Syndrome is mostly found in African Americans that eat mostly sugar and its moves
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abortion just because your child was going to be born with Down syndrome? Patricia Bauer didn’t; she raised her daughter with Down syndrome because she felt that is was the right thing to do. Down syndrome children should be treated like the equals they are‚ not like some sort of alien. In the very beginning of Bauer’s article she is simply explaining the abortion rate these days‚ and how it is mostly children with down syndrome that get their life terminated. She is able to write this article
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Tourette Syndrome was first described by a French doctor named Georges Gilles de la Tourette. (Joseph‚ Kidshealth) The disease can be very hard to control depending on the severity. It can cause repetitive movements or sudden jerks such as excessive eyeblinking‚ or shrugging your shoulders and even head jerking. Tourette’s can also can cause you to say unwanted things such as offensive phrases/words or blurting out random words‚ which are typically called tics. (Tourette Syndrome‚ Mayoclinic) Tics
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) SARS is a flu like disease that is easily spread‚ and causes respiratory illness. It is caused by the Coronavirus pathogen. SARS can be a concerning disease due to how easily it can infect a population‚ but it can be also be treated by a Doctor. In the past there have been about 10‚000 reported cases of SARS and death rate of 9.6%. Most of the cases were due to the 2003 outbreak of SARS which are some of the last documented cases. SARS is not one of the world’s
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Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome‚ or PCOS‚ is the most common endocrine disorder in females. Five to ten percent of women at childbearing age have polycystic ovarian syndrome. However‚ less than fifty percent of women are diagnosed (PCOS Foundation Web). Although scientists do not know much about PCOS‚ they do know that it is caused by irregular hormones. Therefore‚ it is also believed to be genetically spread (WebMD Web). According to the PCOS Foundation‚ “If a mother has PCOS‚ there is a fifty percent
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Klinefelter’s Syndrome “Harry Fitch Klinefelter specialized in endocrinology and rheumatology (weak bones) and through his studies Klinefelter’s syndrome was described in 1942‚” (Encyclopedia Britannica). The diagnosis of the patient is usually done at a young age through a series of many tests‚ one in which the doctor finds if the patient has two X-Chromosomes and one Y-Chromosome. As a random genetic mishap during the formation of the fetus‚ Klinefelter’s has many symptoms. The treatment is not
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Turner syndrome is named after Henry Turner who‚ in 1938‚ was one of the first doctors to report on the disorder in medical literature. Turner syndrome is one of the most common chromosomal disorders and is one of the most common genetic disorders found in females‚ it is a rare chromosomal disorder that affects only females. This condition occurs in about 1 in 2‚500 female births worldwide‚ but is much more common among pregnancies that do not survive to term‚ like miscarriages and stillbirths.
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Situations of kidnapping are traumatizing‚ and terrifying. So in cases of Stockholm Syndrome‚ it is very perplexing why a hostage would bond with their kidnapper‚ who is the cause of their trauma. Generally‚ one would think of their kidnapper as an evil‚ cruel‚ inhumane individual‚ but why would Stockholm Syndrome develop and make someone see their captor in a positive light? Overall‚ Stockholm Syndrome develops as a defence mechanism‚ and it makes the victim form an attachment to their captor which
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capability of adolescent and adult participants with Williams Syndrome to obtain conceptual change concepts with an empirical approach. These 10 participants with William Syndrome were compared to a few groups of normal developing children with respect to biological knowledge about people‚ animals and plants. The experiment’s final results ended in an engrossing sum of information that effected in the participants with Williams Syndrome being differentially impaired on conceptual change for construction
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