I agree with the statement, we can’t believe 100% to someone even to our best friends. There is an old latinese philosophy that says “Homo Homini Lupus” which means a man is a wolf to another man. This philosophy is an image of human nature. The wolf as a creature is thought, in this example, to have qualities of being predatory and cruel.…
• Inflammation of various tissues of the body (systemic lupus erythematosus). • Fabry disease. • Whipple disease. SYMPTOMS Symptoms of…
Neonatal lupus erythematosus is an uncommon autoimmune disease which associated with the transplacental passage of maternal autoantibodies which affect atrioventricular node and hiss bundles of fetus heart and can cause fibrosis and calcification of cardiac structure(3). Fetal exposure to these maternal autoantibodies can also because myocarditis creates a late onset cardiomyopathy (8). Our patient suffered from isolated CCHB without any evidence of structural damage or myocarditis. Almost CCHB can be defined at 18-28 weeks gestational age, 6 weeks after passage of maternal IgG autoantibodies, due to fetal bradycardia and its confirmation is by using fetal echocardiography. Our baby showed bradycardia at 29 gestational ages in routine sonography…
Retrieved 10 May 2017, from http://www.resources.lupus.org/entry/what-is-lupus?utm_source=lupusorg&utm_medium=answersFAQ Paz, Z. (2017). Patient / Caregiver. Rheumatology.org. Retrieved 10 May 2017, from https://www.rheumatology.org/I-Am-A/Patient-Caregiver/Disease-Conditions/Lupus Manson, J., & Rahman, A. (2006).…
Abstract Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease in which the human immune system is overactive. Chronic means that the signs and symptoms tend to last longer than six weeks and can last up to several years (Lupus Foundation of America, 2014). Autoimmune means the immune system cannot tell the difference between foreign invaders and healthy tissues within the body. Therefore, the body attacks itself by creating auto-antibodies that destroy the remaining healthy tissue (Lupus Foundation of America, 2014).…
Lupus is short for a known condition called Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Lupus is an autoimmune disease, which means the body, attacks its own cells. It affects different organs including the skin, joints, heart, lungs, blood, kidneys, and the brain. At least 5 million people worldwide have a form of lupus but more than 90% of the patients diagnosed with this particular deadly disease are women. People that usually develop this disease are young teens and middle-aged adults.…
Summary The Scientific journal article I chose was about the disease Systematic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), better known as Lupus. “There are two types of lupus. Systemic lupus erythematosus (that) can harm your skin, joints, kidneys and brain and may be fatal. The other type, called "discoid" lupus erythematosus, affects only your skin.”…
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that impacts the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). MS impacts the brain and spinal cord because the myelin sheath, which protects nerve fibers, is attacked by the immune system. Nerve fibers over time deteriorate or they become severely damages to the point where it is not reversible. The cause of this disease is not yet known but is classified as an autoimmune disease. It is said that a mix between genetics and environmental factors could be responsible cause of multiple sclerosis.…
Lupus. Most of you are thinking “What the heck is this guy talking about?” Am I right? Well for those of you who do not know what Lupus is, I’m here to explain. Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body including skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body.…
I chose lupus for my autoimmune disease. “Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs when your body’s immune system attacks your own tissues and organs.” (Mayo Clinic, 2015). Lupus can cause inflammation that can affect the joints, skin, kidneys, blood calls, brain heart and lungs. Symptoms for lupus are fatigue, fever, joint pain, butterfly-shaped rash on face, and shortness of breath and chest pain.…
The classes of immune abnormalities that produce lupus and unravel mechanisms through which specific genetic polymorphisms promote disease has been clarified by conducting studies of genetically manipulated mice and congenic mice who possess chromosomal intervals which contain lupus susceptibility genes (Cheung, Loh, Pau, Kim, & Wither, 2009). This drew my attention because lupus is a disorder that is basically hereditary in my family and I would like for medical professionals to have more knowledge on how to deal with and treat the rare…
Lupus is an autoimmune inflammatory disease. It is a disease that the immune system attacks the healthy tissue and organs of your body. The people who have lupus it can attack the skin, joints, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart, and lungs. It is hard to diagnose the lupus because it can mimic other ailments. When people are talking about lupus they are talking about the systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE.…
In many recent years, the termed “lupus” typical known as autoimmune disorder with a wide spectrum of manifestations ranging from minor cutaneous involvement to severe major organ damage. Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) previously a rare disease now seem to be relatively common in certain groups. SLE defined as chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease where the immune system becomes overactive and starts making antibodies against its own cells. Chronic means the signs and symptoms tend to last longer than six weeks and often for many years whereas inflammation affect many different body systems that including the most important part either of your joint, skin, blood, kidneys, lungs, heart, the central nervous system or various of combination…
Multiple Sclerosis is a hard disease to define because it affects everyone differently and can be described differently by everyone who has it. To start off, an autoimmune means that instead of the immune system fighting off diseases and foreign cells in the body, it decides that the healthy cells are a threat and begins destroying the healthy cells. The other part of the definition is chronic inflammation, this simply means long term inflammation, which is basically the body is constantly trying to heal itself because of the attacks of the immune system on the…
Mok & Lau (2003) explain the pathophysiology as Defective immune regulatory mechanisms, such as the clearance of apoptotic cells and immune complexes, are important contributors to the development of SLE. The loss of immune tolerance, increased antigenic load, excess T cell help, defective B cell suppression, and the shifting of T helper 1 (Th1) to Th2 immune responses leads to B cell hyperactivity and the production of pathogenic autoantibodies. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic autoimmune disease characterized by the production of antibodies to components of the cell nucleus in association with a diverse array of clinical manifestations.…