Aneurysm

INDEPENDENT ESSAY WRITING: STROKE. INTRODUCTION: STROKE. A stroke happens when an artery in the brain gets blocked or starts to leak causing cells around the area to die due to lack of oxygen. This situation arose when some part of the brain is not functioning properly. There are two types of stroke: • Ischemic stroke, which occurs due to lack of blood flowing in the brain. and • Hemorrhagic stroke, which happens due to bleeding. When this happens, a person feels numb and confused, the…

challenges. She states, “without my strong spiritual foundation I don’t know where I would be”. I addition she incorporates “a healthy lifestyle”, by watching what she eats, exercising when she can and getting plenty of rest. With a history of aneurysms, myocardial infarction (MI) and hypertension she recognizes the importance healthy living and does her best to stay in shape. And feels if she continues to take her medication, follows up with her primary care doctor, eat right, and stay…

Congenital aortico-left ventricular tunnel (ALVT) is rare and similar to ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm. There are limited reports describing these rare entities and their associated surgical treatment. Between July 2004 and April 2016, three patients of different ages were diagnosed with aortico-left ventricular tunnel: two in infancy and one in adulthood. Diagnosis was challenging in all three patients. Surgical treatment with patch closure was successful in all three patients. Regardless…

A Will Baker short story Grace Period, is written in third person to make the narrator feel what is happening in the story. It was a day like any other but yet something was weird. His surroundings felt the same but yet very different. The first step is trying to figure out what was happening. The second one is the feeling of panic and being alone. The third is the feeling of knowing what is happening. The fourth is the end of the “Grace Period”. During the short story, the main character feels…

Chronological: Joe Louis I was well known for the nickname “The Brown Bomber.” My friends nicknamed me that because I lost to Germany’s Max Schmeling. When I was a young boy, I suffered from a speech disorder and spoke very little until about the age of 6. I spent most of my early years growing up in the countryside of Alabama. My father, a sharecropper, was committed to a state mental hospital when I was two years old. My early life was shaped by financial struggles. When I was a teenager, I…

way to pull me back in His direction and each time, my faith grew and continues to grow stronger. Two years ago, for instance, an older lady at my church passed away very suddenly. She was singing a special during the morning church service and an aneurysm and collapsed. It was eye-opening for me and showed me just how short life can be and how important it is to fully trust in God. Past experiences and situations have only pushed me closer to God and my goal is that I will not only be able to…

blood may leak out of the artery. Other causes include: • Trauma to the walls of an artery. • Bypass artery grafting surgery. • An infection affecting the walls of an artery. • A heart attack (myocardial infarction). • The rupture of an aneurysm. SYMPTOMS Symptoms of this condition include: • Pain, discomfort, or tenderness…

In 1967 Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki, a Japanese Pediatrician was the first to describe a serious illness characterized by inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body that primarily affects children under the age of five and infants. The Kawasaki Disease, named after Tomisaku, is also known as Kawasaki syndrome and Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome, because it affects lymph nodes, skin and the mucous membranes inside of the mouth, nose and throat. Kawasaki Disease is slightly more common in…

Pathologic heart murmurs are caused by structural abnormalities of the heart. These include defective heart valves, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (enlarged heart muscle), holes or abnormal openings in the walls of the heart (septal defects), aortic aneurysm, or other congenital heart disease. This causes blood flow into the heart to be really slow and does not allow the affected person to live a long healthy life. Treatment of heart murmurs If a septal defect is causing the heart murmurs,…

Explain how atherosclerotic plaque is formed. Atherosclerosis is a disease of the large and intermediate sized arteries, where fatty lesions called atheromatous plaques develop on the inside surfaces of arterial walls. It is characterised by endothelial dysfunction, vascular inflammation and an accumulation of lipids, calcium, cholesterol, and cellular debris within the intima wall - making it a multifactorial disease that usually develops many years before manifestation of clinical symptoms.…