Colonoscopy

Crohn’s Disease is a systemic autoimmune disorder progressively rising in the United States. People of all ages are affect. But, it seems to be more dominant in people between the ages of 14 – 35, including those that smoke cigarettes, family members with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and Jewish descent. Crohn’s disease is chronic, causing abnormal inflammation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, affecting the end of the small intestine to the beginning of large intestine. It affects the…

1) Name the two types of inflammatory bowel disease and discuss the differences between the two types and their characteristics including diarrhea, rectal bleeding and areas involved? “Inflammatory bowel diseases are of two types: Regional entitis (Crohn’s disease) and Ulcerative colitis”. (Bare, Day, Paul, Smeltzer & Williams, 2010, p. 1172). Regional colitis refers to the inflammation of GI tract and most commonly affects the distal ileum and ascending colon. The inflammation begins with edema…

Chilaiditi’s sign-which is an extremely rare radiographic sign is an incidental radiographic finding of interposition of a colon segment between the liver and the diaphragm. Chilaiditi sign can be initially misdiagnosed as a diaphragmatic hernia or pneumoperitoneum that can need unnecessary surgeries.We report a patient with type-2 diabetes mellitus, who was incidentally diagnosed with Chilaiditi’s sign in order to attract attention to this extremely rare occasion and avoid unnecessary surgery.…

Women everywhere are fighting for their right to terminate their pregnancy. In some places in the United States, it is harder to get access to a clinic then it is to a hospital to birth a child. It seems society stands behind a woman if she gives birth then one who decides to terminate one. We need to demystify the procedure and disseminate more information on abortion as both a healthy and acceptable option. Here we are only going to demystify some of the claims when trying to obtain a…

of high school, I was diagnosed with Autoimmune Hepatitis with liver cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is the development of scar tissue left on the liver when the liver becomes scarred. During my hospital stay, a four night stay which included a biopsy, colonoscopy, and multiple ultrasounds, I was told by my doctors that I would never be able to play contact sports ever again due to the amount of scarring developed on my liver. If I were to get hit in just the right spot, my liver could lacerate and…

Cancer Awareness and Funding Thesis: Cancer awareness plays an important and critical role in increasing funding for cancer research. I. What is Cancer? A. Cancer is a disease where cells become abnormal and grow uncontrollably B. Cancer can form anywhere in the body C. Cancer cells form in one place causing a tumor which destroy normal body cells III. Types of Cancer A. Malignant and benign cancer cells B. There are over 200 types of cancer C. Types are classified by the…

Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer “Chief information officer (CIO) is an executive job title given to the person in charge of information technology (IT) strategy and the computer systems required to support an enterprise's objectives and goals” (Six Qualities of a World-Class). CIOs in healthcare must be passionate about transforming healthcare, and it inspires those around them with the ability to lead and mentor others. “As healthcare CIOs help to translate the value of…

found woman's risk of dying from giving birth is 14% times higher. The study also found that pregnancy related complications were more common with children birth than abortion. The American medical association and state that mortality rate of a colonoscopy is more than 40 time greater than an abortion. The national cancer institute. The American cancer society. All refuted the claim that abortion can lead to a higher probability of developing breast cancer. A 1993 fertility investigation of…

DOI: 10/23/2006. Patient is a 69-year-old male assistant terminal manager/superintendent who alleges numerous work related injuries to his back, right shoulder and left elbow due to cumulative trauma. Per IME report dated 01/22/09, the patient has had microforaminotomies of the lumbar spine. Medications include Gabapentin, doxazosin, Vicodin and Celebrex. It was opined that the patient has reached maximum medical improvement. Per procedure reports, the patient underwent a bilateral L3-L4…

increasing partly due to increased colorectal cancer screening (Modlin, Oberg et al. 2008; Murray, Sippel et al. 2012). Majority of rectal carcinoids are diagnosed incidentally. The prevalence of rectal carcinoid in adults undergoing screening colonoscopy ranges 0.05 – 0.07%, which is estimated to be 27,500 – 38,500 cases in the United Stated (Scherubl 2009). In a large United States-based databases comprising patients with rectal…