Kawasaki disease is a very serious disease that can mimic many infections. When unrecognized and untreated, it can result in severe damage to the coronary arteries of the heart, resulting in heart attack and sudden death in children. Luckily, most pediatricians are taught to look out for Kawasak...
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There is no single laboratory test that can definitively prove that a person has the complex illness. To date, lupus has no known cause or cure. Early detection and treatment is the key to a better health outcome and can usually lessen the progression and severity of the disease. Anti-...
Living with a disease you’re told will probably cause your death is a balancing act between denial of death and grabbing each moment as fully as you can. But when kept in good balance, breast cancer can be one of the best gifts you’ll ever get. In my world, death and I are simpl...
Myelography is contraindicated if inflammatory disease is suspected and should not be performed if the CSF is cloudy instead of clear. General anesthesia is required. Phenothiazine premedications are contraindicated. The practice of demonstrating spinal abnormalities by using contrast medium in the epidural...
; (b) degeneration and subsequent erosion of the superior articular process; (c) fracture of part of the posterior arch other than the pars interarticularis (e.g., pedicle fracture); and (d) pathologic conditions of the bone forming the posterior arch (e.g., Paget’s disease)....
This dreaded disease eventually wore down even the likes of a little dynamo like Tyler.He grew quite ill and,unfortunately,so did his HIV-infected mother.When it became apparent that he wasn't going to survive,Tyler's mom talked to him about death.She comforted him by telling Tyler that ...
"The move to recapture a small part of the profits from an industry that pushed a product that contributes to diabetes, obesity and heart disease in poorer communities in order to reinvest in those communities will sure be inspirational to many other places," said Jim Krieger, executive ...
CT scans, and other images to detect disease. AI has proven adept at spotting anomalies on scans and, in some cases, is able to find possible lesions that human eyes can’t see. Yet the true value of AI in radiology, at least for now, is to help radiologists rather than replace the...
(B) Mondor disease N.S.: information not previously specified. To this end, the historic descriptor of “lesion boundary” has been removed from the new version of the lexicon. This is in part based on the low diagnostic value of the presence of an echogenic transition zone or echogenic ...