Glomerulonephritis is the inflammation of the tiny small blood vessels within the kidneys that acts as filter called glomeruli. The disease damages the kidneys' ability to remove waste and excess fluids from the body. Glomerulonephritis can be acute - sudden attack of inflammation, or chronic- long-term and coming on gradually. In the past, chronic glomerulonephritis was the common cause of chronic renal failure but as of today, diabetes mellitus and hypertension are the main causes of ESRD, which account for almost 60% of dialysis patients. The cost of treating a kidney disease is uneconomical1.…
Individual Report of Herpes Simplex Virus Case background A 26-year old white lady who has the symptoms includes genital itchy and sharp and severe pain on labia. She also has three previous episodes of pain over 6 months. It appearance of red sores, crusted and healed without scar and small red blisters. Beside, she has 5 sexual partners since last year.…
Week Eight Journal Mrs. C. C. was a sixty-seven-year-old Caucasian woman who presented to the office with bruises on her left forearm and right hand. She had a history of diabetes, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease, and arthritis. Upon completion of her history and physical exam, large dark purplish irregular patches were noted on the left dorsal portion of bilateral forearms. The areas did not blanch and appeared to be isolated areas to bilateral forearms. There were no other signs of bleeding noted or verbalized per Mrs. C. C.…
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is an autoimmune disease, where the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. To fight diseases our bodies produce antibodies, but in an SLE patient’s case, their body will produce what’s called ‘autoantibodies’. This means their immune system cannot tell the difference between foreign invaders and healthy cells. These autoantibodies cause the symptoms of the disease.…
Heart failure (HF) is, after cirrhosis, the second-most common cause of ascites. Serum B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) plays an important role in the diagnosis of HF. Therefore, we hypothesized that BNP would be useful in the differential diagnosis of ascites. Consecutive patients with new onset ascites were prospectively enrolled in this crosssectional study. All patients had measurements of serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG), total protein concentration in ascitic fluid, serum, and ascites BNP.…
SLE or Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is a very complicated disease process. According to the American College of Rheumatology,” Lupus is a destructive inflammatory disease process. It affects multiple organ systems, usually characterized by fatigue, fever, skin lesions, joint pain and swelling, anemia often affecting the kidneys and various other organs. This disease is ten times more common in women than it is in men.” SLE is a chronic disease process that there is no known cure for, basically, in SLE the immune system attacks the body’s own organs and tissue.…
Frequency of lupus attacks or "flares" is truly dependent on the patient. UAV rays, cigarettes, stress are some of the biggest factors for causing a flare but as for how often they occur just depends on the patient. There is no way to know how long the flare will last in a single patient. Most common organs effected by lupus itself is the skin, kidneys, lungs. About one half of patients with lupus experience kidney problems within themselves.…
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.…
Blood tests show that one or all of the different blood cell types are decreased. One cell type, the lymphocyte may increase and be abnormal in appearance. This can sometimes be confused with certain types of leukemia. If a dog becomes chronically infected, the disease can keep coming back, especially during periods of stress. In some cases, arthritis or a kidney disease called 'glomerluonephritis' may develop.…
Lupus is a type of inflammatory disease that affects the immune system which causes your body to attack its own tissues and this disease is a very chronic disease with ongoing signs. There are proteins in your body called antibodies that can protect your body from different types of invaders like the flu. Your body can tell the difference between good and bad antibodies. Lupus is able to destroy a variety of cells and organs such as, joints, skin, liver, heart, and kidneys.…
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.…
million people worldwide have some form of Lupus. Lupus is an inflammatory disease caused when the immune system attacks its own tissues. This disease is three times more prevalent among people of color and 90% of those people are women. In over half of all Lupus cases a major organ will be affected such as the kidney and brain. In the kidney, nephrons are structures that filter the blood.…
A 63-year-old Chinese woman, who had been receiving maintenance hemodialysis for 2 years, presented to the nephrologist with an exit site infection of hemodialysis catheter. The patient was assigned to a 3-days conservative treatment. However, the exit site infection had worsened to dacron cuff infection. Then, a left internal jugular vein tunneled hemodialysis catheter was planned to be inserted to replace the infected catheter. During the procedure, the patient suddenly developed profound hypotension and loss of consciousness.…
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.…
The diagnosis for HCV is if the antibody test if reactive, an additional blood test is needed to determine if a person is currently infected with Hepatitis C. If the RNA test comes back positive then they do have the virus. There is no vaccine for hepatitis C but some things you can do to prevent getting this virus is practice healthy hygiene; including surgical hand preparation, hand washing and the use of gloves. Other ways is to be safe handling and disposing of sharps and waste, provision of comprehensive harm-reduction services to people who inject drugs including sterile injecting equipment, and testing of donated blood for hepatitis B and C. Treatment for hepatitis C is therapy with DAAs which can cure most persons with HCV infection and treatment is shorter (usually 12 weeks) and…