Submit your Case Study in the Drop Box as: Case Study – One Mrs. X comes into the urgent care stating that she does not feel well. Patient states that she burned her forearm two to three days prior when cooking. The patient states that initially the area on her forearm was just “red” with a few small pin head sized blisters. The patient states that she did not put anything on the blisters, as she thought they would diminish within the next day or two. Now the patient presents with a fever.…
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or SLE is a complex systemic autoimmune disease characterized by the loss of tolerance to nuclear antigen, immune complex formation and innflammation in multiple organs ( Hagberg and Ronnblom, 2015). This disease is a very confusing disease. Through my research I have found many different things can happen to you once you are found with systemic lupus erythematosus or lupus for short. This disease is very interresting and hard to describe at the same time. You will have many different symptoms and can have an extreme amout of problems to almost no problems at all.…
Introduction: Epidemiology: Sepsis is a significant public health burden with increasingly high incidence and mortality rates. In 2010, an estimated 5.1% of deaths were attributed to sepsis in the United Kingdom. Consequently, it is a leading cause of admission to intensive care units (ICU), delays in hospital discharge and a significant cost to the economy. Therefore, it is imperative to raise awareness and prepare clinicians with the knowledge and guidance to embark on the global movement towards improving quality of care and outcomes for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock.…
When I was seven years old I was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Which is an illness where the myelin sheath that protects the nerves has been damaged. This causes the signals from the brain to not reach the correct nerve. Such as the command to build muscle within your extremities or other areas of your body to go unnoticed.…
Crohn's Disease causes our immune system to produce a prolonged immune response against helpful microbes in our digestive system, because of this an affected individual's body would send white blood cells to the area it believes to be invaded with foreign organisms. This white blood cells then release cytokines that would promote inflammation. Those affected by Crohn's disease will experience this continuous inflammation.…
Chronic inflammation, additionally, is associated with lymphocytes and macrophages, while having an increase in blood vessels, also, dealing with fibrosis and tissue necrosis. An example of each would be, a sore throat from a cold for acute inflammation and asthma for chronic inflammation. A2: Platelets are…
Rheumatoid Arthritis is an autoimmune disease that targets synovial tissues, cartilage and bone (Smolen & Keystone, 2012). In an autoimmune disease, the immune system mistakes the body's own cells for invaders and attacks healthy cells and organs instead of pathogens (Spriggs, 2014). The two long bones of the forearm, the radius and the ulna, are connected through the radioulnar joint, a joint that is divided into a proximal and a distal half (Savvidou, Murphy, Mailhot, Shushan, Scheker, 2013). The distal half is the joint that articulates with the wrist.…
About 8 months ago my husband and my life changed. My husband was diagnosis with a disease called Multiple Sclerosis. I have heard of this disease but I never knew what exactly it is. I didn’t know what the symptoms was, the life expectancy, and it was a very foreign matter for both my husband and I. Since we found out I have done tons of research trying to find out everything I can to get some type of knowledge for this.…
The Paleolithic diet is an entirely new way of eating. Although it initially sounds radical, converts cannot stop raving about its benefits. The Paleolithic man had an entirely different diet than modern man does. His relationship with food was completely different than ours. A lot of our food experiences are emotional or sentimental.…
I chose lupus as the autoimmune disease that I am doing my discussion on. Lupus is a disease where the body’s immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks healthy tissue. Symptoms of lupus can vary but some symptoms are: fatigue, rash, inflammation, swelling, and fever. These can sometimes get better for a while and then you can have (flare-ups) where it gets worse again. A doctor who is considering the possibility of lupus will look for signs of inflammation which include, pain, heat, redness, swelling, and loss of function at a particular place in the body.…
Healing occurs when the macrophages engulfs and digests the debris, microbes and other substances as these cells form a response to the infection (Brown,…
The name of my article was “Managing premature atherosclerosis in patients with chronic inflammatory disease.” The article referred to individuals with chronic inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic, lupus erythematosus, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis having an increased risk of death due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. It stated that individuals with joint disease risk for myocardial infarction is 60% higher than the general population and systemic inflammatory diseases are doubled the general population. Inflammation mediates the earliest stages of atherosclerosis and systemic inflammation promotes progression of atherosclerosis seems to be an explanation of why individuals with chronic…
Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease, and a chronic condition, which means it progressively gets worse overtime. There is a substance called myelin that wraps around your nerves to protect them, but MS breaks down that substance, and your body attacks itself. The unprotected nerves can't function as they would with normal healthy myelin. The damaged nerves produce many symptoms. Some symptoms include; trouble walking, feeling tired, muscle weakness, blurred vision, numbness and tingling.…
Immune suppression is the only real treatment for the chronic inflammation itself; consideration must also be given to diseases that can enhance and perpetuate the inflammatory response (Eming , Krieg, & Davidson,…
Sepsis syndrome (SS) is a clinical syndrome that develops when an infection triggers a dysregulated inflammatory host response, resulting in life-threatening organ dysfunction (1). It exists on a continuum of severity, ranging from early infection and bacteraemia to severe sepsis and septic shock (1). Sepsis can ultimately result in multiple organ failure and death, and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Sepsis has a high mortality rate.…