Medical terms

show that it was mainly composed of cotton that could have been from anywhere. The CDC did say that these people are grieving but it is not a medical disease.…

Abstract Introduction A 2-year and 7-month-old girl is undergoing several treatments to attenuate the effects of type 2 Gaucher disease on her health. She has been diagnosed with type 2 Gaucher disease since she was three months old and several symptoms have appeared during that short lap of time. Case presentation In a type 2 Gaucher disease patient, the lysosomal enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase undergoes mutation and is therefore unable to break down glucocerebroside into ceramide and glucose.…

atient is a 34 year old woman complaining of joint pain, 7 on a pain scale of 1-10, as well as feelings of anxiety. She states her joint pain began a little over a month ago at first in her knees. Then she began to notice the pain increasing, and soon spreading to her wrists and fingers. She believed her job as an accountant and the constant typing required for the job exacerbated her joint pain in her fingers and wrists. She describes the pain as a “burning” sensation. Ms. Edwards also began…

end their life. Another argument that may come into play is that the patient’s voluntary and informed consent may never be certain because most individuals who want to die are under pressure. Others opposing euthanasia believe that when continued medical care to cure an illness or disease have failed, hospice should come into play. This creates time that all efforts should be made to make the patient’s remaining time as comfortable as possible. Thus, all interventions and treatments should be…

RL is an 87 year old male who was experiencing increasing numbness and tingling in his left arm and was unable to stand up from his chair. He came into the ED on 10.27 at an external hospital and received a CT scan, which presented a C4 mass. He was then transferred to DHMC on 10.28 for further management. Comorbidities involve Afib with bradycardia at baseline, HTN, arthritis, a recurrent parastomal hernia and a colostomy. RL also had a spinal mass 40 years ago that was removed. It is not clear…

Do you ever just think about how we don’t have a choice or any control over our destiny especially when it comes to how we leave this world? This is something a person who is terminally is haunted by everyday wondering when there last breath is going to be and will it be pain free. What does living really mean? Does that mean being able to enjoy the company of those around you being able to truly be yourself or does it mean having a pulse even though your unconscious. Assisted suicide is meant…

In diagnosing Achalasia, symptoms such as regurgitation of swallowed food and liquid or feeling of an object in their throat is very common. However, the primary symptom for achalasia is problems swallowing. Many patients will unfortunately not seek help until symptoms worsen and will employ techniques such as eating slowly or lifting the neck while throwing their shoulders back to help improve swallowing solids and liquids. Once patients do decide to seek treatment for these symptoms,…

The eye disorder I have chosen this week is Ocular Melanoma. “OM is an aggressive form of cancer that can involve any of three areas of the eye: the iris (the pigmented area surrounding your pupil), the ciliary body (a thin tissue layer in your eye responsible for aqueous humor production), and/or the choroid or posterior uvea (the vascular layer of the eye between the retina and the white outer layer known as the sclera; this pigmented tissue full of blood vessels nourishes the retina)…

Diagnosis Diagnosis of PD is based predominantly on the detailed assessment of signs and symptoms and medical history. The clinical diagnosis of PD is made when two or more of the cardinal symptoms are asymmetrically present. Again the cardinal symptoms include bradykinesia, resting tremor, rigidity, and postural instability with all other causes ruled out. Unfortunately, no lab test, radiologic study, or biopsy can confirm the diagnosis of PD. Therefore, the progressive decline of motor…

by direct person- to- person contact, all it takes is an infected or colonized patient or employee. MRSA used to be rare and limited to teaching hospitals but now it is seen more often. Popular places for MRSA to appear include nursing homes, long term care facilities, and throughout the community, especially in places with a variety of people. Health care facilities have an advantage to community places such as athletic facilities because they ensure everything is properly sanitized.…