Amy Clayborn English 111/Online Summer 2011 Heather Buford June 21‚ 2011 The short story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Conner has brought about some interesting views and discussions within my target audience. Many of us found it difficult to read‚ because of the tragic ending and the way that it was written was a little out of our norm. Even though the southern slang and accents that the writer used in the story added character‚ it may have taken a second glance to determine what
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Blue Rubber Syndrome is a rare condition initially discovered by Gascoyen in 1860. In 1985 William Bennett Bean made the disease more popular for which the disease was termed Bean Syndrome. Later referenced Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome‚ this disease causes patients blood vessels to develop improperly in an area of the skin or visceral organs‚ particularly the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The malformed blood vessels form blood clots and appear on the skin as deep blue‚ soft‚ and rubbery blebs
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Systemic Lupus erythematosus and Hypertension are both diseases that are involved with the Visele family. Systemic Lupus is an autoimmune disease while hypertension is a disease that is considered genetic. Systemic Lupus erythematosus is “a chronic inflammatory condition caused by an autoimmune disease (1)” “Hypertension is high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries as it flows through them. Arteries are the blood vessels that carry oxygenated
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Causes of Hives Classic urticaria‚ commonly known as hives‚ is a transient skin disorder in which lesions are elevated with well-circumscribed margin of redness and swelling. These skin lesions are called wheals. Wheals vary in shapes from round to oval‚ and are often itchy. The lesions and itchiness of hives is caused by an immunologic response of your body‚ primarily due to the action of histamine release. Hives is generally caused by a lot of allergic conditions or diseases. It can either
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Lupus is a complicated and unpredictable disease‚ no two cases are alike. Each individual person with lupus acquire different symptoms that affect so many different organs. A mild case of lupus effects the skin or joints‚ the severity of the disease can vary from person to person. The skin is often “a characteristic red skin rash- the so called butterfly or malar rash- may appear across the nose‚ cheeks‚ hands and other areas exposed to the sun. Because many people with lupus are sensitive to sunlight
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Case Study A 17-year-old female with systemic lupus A 17-year-old female was admitted with a month long history of involuntary movement bilaterally in hand and legs. The patient stated that the movement started one month ago. And she had occasionally involuntary movement of her mouth. The symptoms were mild in the beginning and gradually increased. The patient had dyskinesia around her mouth and thoracic and occasionally choreathetoid movement in bilateral upper extremity. She said she had similar
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Patients with these diseases have antibodies in their blood which target their own body tissues‚ where they can be associated with inflammation. Because it can affect multiple other organs of the body‚ rheumatoid arthritis is referred to as a systemic illness and is sometimes called rheumatoid disease. While rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic illness‚ meaning it can last for years‚ patients may experience long periods without symptoms. Typically‚ however‚ rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive
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Oral Medicine Lupus Erythematosus and Its Dental Management Submitted to: Dr Nahed Attia Done by: Maryam Bassam Baghdadi Id: 201500135 Group B Lupius is a chironic inflamimatory auto-immiune diseiase. Inflamimation cauised by lupus can affiect many diffierent bodiy systiems‚ incluiding joints‚ skiin‚ kidneys‚ bliood cells‚ heiart and lunigs. Four tyipes of luipus exist(systiemic‚ disicoid‚ drug-indiuced‚ neoinatal)‚ of tihese‚ systeimic luipus eryithematosus is the moist comimon and
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosis is an autoimmune disease in which organs and cells undergo damage mediated by auto antibodies and immune complex deposition. SLE is more common in black females (>90%) whereas it is relatively rare in white males (<10%). Female preponderance in SLE is explained by hormonal differences between genders and the genes located on the X chromosome such as TREX -1 gene which is believed to play a major role. Women of child bearing age‚ who are on oral contraceptive pill or Hormone
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Introduction Lupus is an auto immune inflammatory disease that attacks the body’s tissues and organs and it occurs mostly among females. The inflammation attacks different parts of the body (internal and external) for example the skin‚ brain and joints (Mayo Clinic.2017). Lupus is also known as “The Great Imitator” since the symptoms that come with Lupus mimic those of other diseases (LupusSA.2017) The aim of this research is to find out how Lupus alters a person’s lifestyle. The main changes that
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