Any condition that causes loss of blood flow and damage to the vagina or an adjacent organ can result in fistula formation, such as pressure necrosis from prolonged labor or inflammatory bowel disease. The vaginal suture line from a total hysterectomy, particularly when combined with any other pre...
Lepromatous leprosy: Early lesions are pale macules (flat areas) that are diffuse and symmetric. Later, medical professionals can find manyM. lepraeorganisms in the lesions. Alopecia(hair loss) occurs. Often patients have no eyebrows or eyelashes. As the disease progresses, nerve involvement leads...
A randomized controlled trial in 117 patients who had acute diverticulitis found that the rate of complete response, in which patients became asymptomatic, was significantly higher in patients receiving mesalamine than in those who received placebo (Stollman 2013). Additional rigorous studies are needed...
Loss of SUMO-specific protease 2 causes isolated glucocorticoid deficiency by blocking adrenal cortex zonal transdifferentiation in mice SUMOylation is a mechanism of posttranslational modification involved in eukaryotic cell homeostasis. Here the authors report that mice unable to control SUMOylation in ...
I later learned that this was because I was unknowingly walking around with four different gut infections, including Helicobacter pylori, which is connected to both Hashimoto’s and Graves’ disease and can cause new onset food sensitivities! I was shocked and in complete disbelief that I ...
Red light therapy is a powerful form of therapy that has been established scientifically to help regrow a thicker, fuller head of hair. Studies show it’s more effective than mainstream hair loss treatments, for both men and women – and much, much safer. Of more than 50,000 studies conduc...
The rationale for embedding variants from the high-impact class in the moderate-impact class is that both types of variant are capable of inducing a loss of function. The prior on the probability that a modeled rare variant is pathogenic, conditional on either the association model mediated by ...
Giardia lamblia, also known asG. duodenalisandG. intestinalis, is a binucleate flagellate protozoan that usually causes subclinical infestation of the small intestine. Clinical disease is usually seen in young dogs and the characteristic sign is voluminous, light-colored, foul-smelling, soft to watery...
Thinking something is true even though it is not, or seeing things that are not actually there Trouble controlling when you urinate or have a bowel movementWhat are the signs and symptoms of severe AD?Complete loss of memory Complete loss of speech Loss of bladder and bowel control Trouble wa...
Thinning hair Not being able to tolerate cold Heavy or irregular periods Fertility problems Graves' disease, on the other hand, causes your thyroid gland to make too much thyroid hormones, so your body’s functions work faster than it should. That’s why, with Graves' disease, you may have...