Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, can lead to serious medical conditions, such as: Organ and body part injury and/or damage to the brain, liver, kidneys, heart, GI tract, bones, teeth, skin and hair Hormonal imbalances and lack of menstruation in girls Slowed or stopped gro...
Term female infants have prominentlabia majoraLabia majoraVagina, Vulva, and Pelvic Floor: Anatomy. Preterm female infants have prominentlabia minoraLabia minoraVagina, Vulva, and Pelvic Floor: Anatomy. A small amount of vaginal discharge and bleeding associated with withdrawal from maternal estrogens is...
The circulatory system reforms itself considerably: red blood cells with a fetal type of hemoglobin are swiftly collapsing because now they are useless for the organism; the immune system becomes more intense; the kidneys, digestive and endocrine systems solve their first problems; and the skin, re...
She not only had racking pain in her spine but infected kidneys, an atrophic ulcer on her right foot, from where gangrenous toes had been amputated in 1934, and recurrent fungus infections on her right hand. Reconciling with de Rivera, they remarried on his 54th birthday, on 8 December ...
At the end of the experiment, the animals were sacrificed with a lethal dose of pentobarbital sodium (Somlethal, Mid-Tech, Inc., Elwood, KS). Animals were weighed and kidneys were taken for radio- activity determinations. To assess the approximate epinephrine concentration in renal blood, the ...
‘jaundice’ essentially means yellow color (Latin ~ glabinus, French ~ jaunisse). It is commonly referred to as yellow jaundice but this makes the term redundant (yellowyellow). The term icterus is often used concurrently with jaundice, however, icterus indicates a yellow discoloration of the ...
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Being aware of the impact of low birth weight on late-onset hypertension, our aim was to describe systolic blood pressure (sBP) and renal function in 3–5-year-old preterm-born children and to determine which perinatal factors or childhood factors were a
Most cases of urinary outflow obstruction are now detected on prenatal ultrasound screening, as are other major abnormalities of the kidneys and urinary tract. Siblings of children with vesicoureteric reflux should be screened for this condition because up to 40% are also affected.45 The American ...