Marfan’s syndrome is a genetic disorder that involves the connective tissues of the body, the heart, eyes, and the musculoskeletal system in general. The gene responsible for the condition is autosomal and not related to the sex chromosomes. A person ...
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Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) is a technological breakthrough in surgery, which enables a doctor to virtually look inside a patient’s body, spot the exact location of a tumor, and treat it without a single cut, thus doing away ...
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Hoarseness can be defined as roughness of the voice because of changes in the frequency or intensity of successive sound waves. A person has a normal voice so long as his vocal cords are of the right size and consistency, vibrate well in response to ...
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is characterized by totally chaotic atrial activity caused by the simultaneous discharge of multiple electrical impulses within the atria. There are many causes of atrial fibrillation. The cardiovascular causes include high ...
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Hypothyroidism is a condition that is characterized by the decreased functioning of the thyroid gland. The thyroid is an H-shaped gland in the neck that produces the hormones thyroxine and triiodothyronine, which play an important role in stimulating various ...
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Swine flu refers to influenza caused by any strain of the influenza viruses that are endemic in pigs (swine). Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans, including the one responsible for the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed 50–100 million ...
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Scarlet fever is a disease that is caused by group A streptococci. These bacteria produce a toxin that gives rise to a typical rash on the body. Although individual infections are more common, epidemics are not very rare either. The disease ...
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Polycythemia is a condition that is characterized by an increase in the total numberf red blood cells. This can happen either when the blood cells actually increaser when the liquid componentf the blood reduces. In the latter case, the polycythemia ...
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Otitis externa is basically the inflammation of the external ear andrs in two forms, namely a benign painful infection of the outer canal that couldrin anybody and a potentially lethal less painful (damaged sensory nerves) disease, ...
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Yaws is a disease that is caused by Treponema pertenue, anrganism that belongs to same family as thene that causes syphilis, except for the fact that this condition is not a sexually transmitted disease. It is spread by coming in direct contact with ...
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