Jaundice

Birth Injury Accidents Every parent has hopes and dreams for their children. These dreams start even before a child is born. When these hopes and dreams are shattered due to medical malpractice, the heartbreak, sadness and grief can threaten to consume you. According to BirthInjuryGuide.org, of every 1,000 infants born in the United States, 6 to 8 of them are born with a birth injury. That means that approximately 1 in every 9,714 people in the U.S. are born with a birth injury. Based on this…

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Correlation between Mast Cells & Liver Disease Introduction: Our guest speaker was Heather Francis PhD who works at both Baylor Scott and White and adjuncts at Texas A&M University. She is a research scientist who has dedicated her studies into the correlation between mast cells and liver diseases. Dr. Francis, along with her research team, has found a link between some hepatic pathologies: cancer and cirrhosis, and an increase in the number of mast cells. Paracrine Interaction: Dr. Francis…

the hospital and tried to call my father, who was not contacted for almost 3 years after that day. It turns out that he had moved to Illinois with his cousin and did not tell us. Back at the hospital, I was born with a devastating disease called jaundice, a liver disease that makes the skin turn yellow. I was diagnosed from birth up until I was two years old, seeing doctors regularly. When I…

ankle swelling and foot. Nocturia which means frequent urination which can occur when the fluid is brought back into the bloodstream while lying supine at night. When fluid is in the bloodstream it can also cause liver enlargement that can cause jaundice and even cause increase in blood…

three to seven weeks symptoms start to shows. Symptoms that a patient normally exhibit when they are infected with HDV are fever, lethargy, nausea, anorexia. These few symptoms begin and last from three to seven days. After those symptoms fade away, jaundice, fatigue, nausea will continue, and the bilirubin will become abnormal. (Hepatitis D General, 2011) During this time the stool will become clay colored and urine will be dark in color, signs that the liver is not efficiently excreting…

Sickle Cell Anemia Anatomy and Physiology 9/1/2014 Victoria Nimtz Definitions and History: Sickle Cell Anemia is a genetically passed disease. Instead of having normal disc – like red blood cells, a person would end up producing semicircular (sickle) shaped blood cells. This turns into a huge problem because the semicircular shaped blood cells block the blood flow within the blood vessels, which happen to carry inside them a protein known as hemoglobin, which ends up carrying oxygen from…

What is a developmental disability? A developmental disability is a mental or physical impairment which is chronic and begins before an individual reaches adulthood. There are many different types of developmental disabilities. They include Intellectual Disability (ID), epilepsy, autism, and cerebral palsy, which is the disorder this paper will be focusing on (CA.Gov 2013). Cerebral Palsy is an impairment in the area of the brain that controls muscle tone and movement. Cerebral Palsy does not…

only in fighting infection but producing RBCs, therefore the spleen in sickle cell patients are linked to the disorder since the output of (Brousse, 2014). Other signs arise from either anemia or blockage includes vision problems, fever, pale skin, jaundice, or numbness; as a result clinical symptom checks are highly important (Health and Quality,…

In Knight’s journal, she detailed daily accounts of her travel including descriptions of her surroundings. For example, “we entered a thicket of tress and shrubs” and then “we were on a descent of a hill” (Knight A: 381). She described the path she traveled as narrow and also mentioned the steepness of the hills. As she continued her trip, she noted the places she stayed at overnight, the type of food she ate and the quality and personality of the people she met. She wrote, “There are plenty…