Week 6 case study Scenario 1 D.W. is a 23-year-old married woman with 3 children under 5 years old. She came to her physician 2 years ago with vague complaints of (C/O) intermittent fatigue‚ joint pain‚ low-grade fever‚ and unintentional weight loss. Her physician noted small patchy areas of vitiligo and a scaly rash across her nose‚ cheeks‚ back‚ and chest at that time. Laboratory studies revealed that D.W. had a positive antinuclear antibody (ANA) titer‚ positive dsDNA (positive lupus erythematosus)
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What is diabetes? Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases where the body’s pancreas does not produce enough insulin or does not properly respond to insulin produced‚ resulting in high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period. There are several different types of diabetes‚ but the most common forms are type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Both impact glucose levels‚ and if left untreated‚ can cause many complications What is type 1 diabetes? Type 1 diabetes (T1D) can occur at any age‚ but is most commonly
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APPENDICITIS Reporter: Rita May C. Reyna APPENDIX The appendix is a normal true diverticulum of the cecum. Like any diverticulum‚ it is prone to acute and chronic inflammation‚ and acute appendicitis is a relatively common entity. Other lesions‚ including tumors‚ can also occur in the appendix but are far less common. The appendix is a wormlike extension of the cecum and‚ for this reason‚ has been called the vermiform appendix. The average length of the appendix is 8-10 cm (ranging from 2-20
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The herpes virus is one of the most prevalent viral diseases known to man. As much as eighty percent of all people‚ worldwide‚ have herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1)‚ and twenty percent have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV2). This may sound like scary statistics‚ but most infected people suffer only mild discomfort. The more common form‚ HSV1‚ usually causes the occasional blister-like sores on or around the mouth. These blisters are called cold sores or fever blisters and‚ as most sufferers know
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than for STDs) in the United States. They make up only 1-2% of the population. Homosexuals live unhealthy lifestyles‚ and have historically accounted for the bulk of syphilis‚ gonorrhea‚ Hepatitis B‚ the “gay bowel syndrome”‚ tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus. Homosexuals questioned in one study reports that 43% admit to 500 or more partners in a lifetime‚ 28% admit to 1000 or more in a lifetime‚ and of these people‚ 79% say that half of those partners are total strangers‚ and 70% of those sexual contacts
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Running Head: Environmental Problems in Prenatal Development Environmental Problems in Prenatal Development Abstract For my research topic‚ I chose environmental problems in prenatal development. I chose this topic because I have a great interest in prenatal development and the care the mother provides that will negatively affect the fetus while it is still developing. Learning about the problems that occur will be an enormous advantage with my future career in nursing. Throughout my
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Educating Special Needs Students: I.e. Autism and other Severe Disabilities Timothy E. Jackson SPE -226 Educating the Exceptional Learner February 23‚ 2011 Professor Rebekah McCarthy This essay is entitled Educating Special Needs Students‚ the author will discuss and several important issues‚ which will be the following; the defining of Mental Retardation a term the author despises‚ Autism‚ Severe Disabilities and Multiple Disabilities‚ also their causes‚ and the impact of these disabilities
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1 Epidemiology: HIV Nicole McDanell Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V Concepts in Community and Public Health September 28‚ 2014 Epidemiology: HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that only affects humans‚ HIV weakens your immune system by destroying the cells that fight and kill disease and infections. HIV reproduces by taking over cells in the host’s body and multiplying‚ with most viruses over time the immune system can rid the body of the present virus
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Infections can be very dangerous for the mother as well for the foetus‚ which can bring a bad effect on the child development. Some infections such as Rubella can cause impaired hearing or eye sight or even a damaged heart‚ other infections such as cytomegalovirus can cause deafness and learning difficulties. These infections can affect a child development and can cause other problems such as how they are treated by society because of these disabilities they pursued. This is why is important for expectant
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Paola A Torres Grand Canyon University: NRS- 427V 12/14/2014 HIV COMMUNICABLE DISEASE AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is defined by the Mayo Clinic as "A chronic‚ potentially life-threatening condition which is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV damages the immune system‚ and interferes with the ability the body has to fight the disease causing organism" (Mayo Clinic‚ 2014). HIV is an infection transmitted sexually. Another mode of transmission for HIV is by exposure
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