Coronary artery disease

Cardiovascular Response: When exercising the muscles requires a constant supply of oxygen, it is the hearts job to make sure there is enough oxygen being pumped round the body for the muscles, the heart has to pump harder and faster as more oxygen is required to get round the body to the muscles in use otherwise they will fatigue quicker. If this is repeated regularly, then over time the heart will become stronger as will become more used to the higher demands. At the start of exercise, the…

performance in the absence of hypertension, valvular, congenital, or ischemic heart disease” (Bozkurt et al., 2016). Based on its origin, it is classified as a primary, which means confined to the myocardium, and mixed (genetic and non-genetic cause) cardiomyopathy: the list of known causes includes heart conditions (coronary heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure), chronic metabolic diseases (diabetes, thyroid disease), infections (viral hepatitis and HIV), toxins like cobalt,…

For the Good of the Horse, or the Good of the People? Sports have rules. No matter the sport, it will have guidelines that tell people how to play and to keep players from cheating. Drug usage, one of the most debated sections of any rulebook, is regulated and controlled with drug testing and hefty punishments. The entire Russian track and field team was recently suspended for a “culture of cheating” through large-scale, government influenced drug usage (Keteyian). The second baseman for the…

Exercise Induced Muscle Damage (EIMD) Exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) is a common phenomenon resulting from the performance of un-accustomed exercise or with an increased intensity or duration (2) and is commonly associated with participation in invasion team sports. Several studies have shown that eccentric muscle actions lead to greater evidence of muscle damage. (Byren et al, 2004 – 2,11,13,18,24). EIMD is mainly caused by strong eccentric muscle contraction during intense exercise…

Many types of hernia are encountered at millions of people in the world, but the most common form, that affects the majority of the hernia patients is hiatal hernia. Other types are: inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia, and sports hernia. These types are less common then hiatal hernia. Any type of hernia occurs when a part of an organ pokes through a tear that appears in the muscles near it. In the hiatal hernia's case, the upper side of the stomach gets in the chest through an opening in the…

The speaker for laboratory’s role in acute kidney injury risk assessment was Denise Geiger, PhD, DLM (ASCP).The objective is to describe the laboratory’s role in acute kidney injury risk assessment, gain insight on how new biomarkers can improve clinical decisions and provide high value patient outcomes, and examine clinical research and applications of novel biomarkers for the assessment of AKI. The speaker was very detailed about this topic, but I only had what I can recall. I decided to go to…

Patients with ADPKD may be at a higher risk of developing thoracic aortic aneurysms. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are not increased among these patients. Pain may also develop for reasons completely unrelated to the underlying disease; thus, abdominal pain in patients with ADPKD may be a diagnostic challenge. In addition to pain, other physical symptoms that patients with early-stage ADPKD may report include fatigue, breathlessness, weakness, and malaise.[24] Hematuria Hematuria frequently is the…

DOI: 8/25/2011. Patient is a 51-year-old male pharmacy technician who sustained a work-related injury when he felt a burning sensation in his back while mixing compounding intravenous medications in the clean room. As per OMNI, the patient is diagnosed with cervical facet joint arthropathy, thoracic spondylosis with radiculopathy and cervical spondylosis without myelopathy. IW is status post anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C5-6 and laminoplasty at C3-7 levels on 02/15.…

University Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic condition that has an affect on many organs of the patient. This disease will ultimately lead to fatal impairment of the lungs. It is most common to see Cystic Fibrosis diagnosed from early childhood to young teens. Cystic Fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder in which both gene alleles must be mutated for the disease to be expressed (Ignatavicius and Workman, 2013). As every person is unique, the severity of the effects from…

Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD) is a genetic disorder that affects the kidneys. Researchers have found three different gene mutations associated with the disease. In most cases, a person inherits the gene mutation, meaning a parent passes it on in his or her genes. In other cases, neither parent has the gene and the disease is considered spontaneous. Polycystic kidney disease causes numerous cysts to grow in the kidneys. A kidney cyst is an abnormal sac filled with fluid. The cysts can greatly…