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Brain Damage Side Effects
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Factor Viii Clotting Factor
1,050 wordsHemophilia is a genetic bleeding disorder. People who have hemophilia have a deficiency or an absence of a coagulation protein. A blood clotting factor is deficient or absent. Bleeding is most often into joints, such as the knee, elbow, or ankle, but bleeding can occur anywhere in the body. People with hemophilia bleed longer, not faster. The severity of hemophilia varies greatly. Hemophilia A and Hemophilia B are the most common genetic bleeding disorders. Hemophilia A is observed in 80 percent...
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Brain Injury Brain Damage
1,650 wordsOn a typical basis, George Fernandez is hit by sailing soccer balls, jabbed by elbows, is kicked by other players and, sometimes, flat-out knocked out cold. He has had so many concussions, he cannot remember some of them, which cause temporary lapses in the brain and sometimes longer-term side effects (Bellenir 72). This type of behavior is one source attributing to the increased occurrence of concussions during sports activities. George's case is a typical example of what is occurring on sports...
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Blood Circulation Computer Related
1,481 wordsDo you dread sitting at your desk all day? Does your body ache after work? If so, you are not alone. Every year thousands of computer users complain about pain in their necks, backs, legs, shoulders, elbows, and wrists. As more people use the computer for work, education and recreation-, the number of computer-related injuries increases. A broad name for the majority of these computer-related injuries is Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD) also known as Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI). According to ...
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Cosmetic Surgery Plastic Surgery
1,267 wordsPlastic Surgery, What Does it Say About Society? For many, the bikini season means one thing: anxiety over what can be done about a body that has surreptitiously expanded under a winter wardrobe of thick sweaters and black tights. This is also a season for fashion magazines to publish all the new plastic surgery developments for those unsatisfied with their bodies. Diets and rigorous exercise are the mainstream options. But for those with several thousand dollars to spend, plastic surgery can me...
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Doesnt Matter Found Guilty
762 wordstouch at the site of the shot. This is a normal reaction to the medicine. Pain in the wound gets worse and won't stop. You have signs of infection (redness, swelling, pus, a bad smell, or red streaks leading from the wound). You have numbness or swelling below the wound, or you cannot move the joint below the wound. deadly poison. Slade was known to evaporate alcohol from everyones barrels, so when he had the chance to steal some of Mr. Baumer's, he did, dying a foolish death. There is no way Mr...
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Literature Resource Center Emily Dickinson
1,305 wordsBecause I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste 5 And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played Their lessons scarcely done; 10 We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, 15 The cornice but a mound. Since then t is cen...
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Symptoms Of Gas Gangrene Symptoms Of Gas Oxygen
811 wordsGas gangrene is a form of gangrene (tissue death) usually caused by a bacterium known as clostridium porringers, but many other bacteria can cause the same effects. It is caused by an infection of clostridium bacteria that, under low oxygen conditions, produce toxins that cause the tissue death and associated symptoms. Gas gangrene is rare, with only 1, 000 to 3, 000 cases occurring in the United States annually. Gas gangrene usually occurs at the site of trauma or a recent surgical wound. About...
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Lymph Nodes Chronic Fatigue
642 wordsMononucleosis is an infectious disease of humans in which the blood and tissues contain mononuclear leukocytes (white blood cells with only one nucleus), either monocytes or lymphocytes. An infectious disease is a disease that can give you an infection, can be transmitted by infection without actual contact, or can be caused by a microorganism. All species of animals are afflicted with infections caused by a wide variety of organisms, from submicroscopic viruses to worm like parasites. When a pe...
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Coronary Artery Disease Sympathetic Nervous System
2,656 words... then give rise to further branching. Cardiologists refer to one, two or three vessel disease based on how many of these three arteries are significantly narrowed by atherosclerosis. However, patients can receive quadruple, quintuple etc, coronary bypasses if branches off of the three main arteries are bypassed as well. Coronary Artery Disease-Atherosclerosis affecting the coronary arteries. This may be asymptomatic, result in stable angina, unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction or car...
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Low Blood Pressure Beats Per Minute
2,499 words... when they occur in the cardiac cycle as well as by echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. MVP-see Mitral Valve Prolapse. Myocardial Infarction-Death of a region of the muscle supplied by an occluded coronary artery. This is commonly referred to as a 'heart attack. ' A previously stable atherosclerotic plaque in a coronary artery-one that was only partially occluding the artery and producing either a stable anginal pattern or no symptoms at all-ruptures its surface due to shear stress ...
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2,035 wordsNobody knows about cosmetic surgery better than Edward Mondeck and his two children, ages 9 and 11. Rosemarie Mondeck, 39, decided to have a bit of tummy fat removed after having two kids. She let the doctors use a new procedure called tumescent liposuction. The patients are primed prior to surgery by injecting large amounts of diluted local anesthetic and epinephrine, drugs that shrink capillaries. They reduce bleeding and make it easier to suck fat out according to doctors. After the drugs wer...
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Patient Undergoing Foot Surgery Undergoing Foot Surgery Pain
592 wordsPes Cards Pes cards (clawfoot) refers to a foot with an abnormally high arch and a fixed equine deformity of the forefoot (see Fig. 62 &# 64979; 6). The shortening of the foot and increased pressure produce calluses on the metatarsal area and on the dorsum (bottom) of the foot. Charcot&# 64979; Marie&# 64979; Tooth disease (a peripheral neuromuscular disorder associated with a familial degenerative disorder), diabetes mellitus, and tertiary syphilis are common causes of pes cards. Exercises are ...
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Factor Viii Clotting Factor
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Third Degree Medical Attention
1,001 wordsHow to Treat a Burn Burns are classified in three categories according to their severity. First-Degree Burns affect the outer layer of the skin, first-degree burns cause pain, redness, and swelling. They usually do not require medical attention. Second-Degree Burns affect both the outer and underlying layer of the skin, causing pain, redness, swelling, and blistering. Third-Degree Burns Severe tissue damage is evident involving the skin, fatty tissue, nerves, and other tissues deep below the sur...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Alternative Therapies
1,552 wordsRheumatoid Arthritis a Debilitating Disease It began seven years ago when Sandra woke up and was getting out bed. She went to stand up and she felt this severe pain in both of her feet. When she looked at her feet they were swollen and bluish red and warm to the touch. She could not understand what was happening. At first she thought she might have frozen her feet. But as time went by she started to get lumps on the bottom of her feet so she went to see the doctor. The doctor did some tests and ...
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First 24 Hours 24 Hours Ankle
294 wordsAnkle Sprains The most common type of ankle injury is a sprain. A sprain is stretching and tearing of ligaments (fibrous bands connecting adjacent bones in a joint. ) There are many ligaments around the ankle and these can become damaged when the ankle is forced into a postion not normally encountered. The most frequently seen sprain occurs when weight is applied to a foot which is on an uneven surface, and the foot rolls in (inversion). Because the sole of the foot is pointing inward as force i...
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