Necrosis

On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist by the name of Gavrilo Princip. Gavrilo was the third of seven assassins that organized by the secret military society from Serbia known as the black hand. The reason Francis Ferdinand assassination was to keep him from making changes when Gavrilo supposed to inherit the Austria-Hungarian throne. With the assassination of their…

For instance, meningitis, which is a swelling of the brain, septic shock, which includes sporadic blood pressures and a decrease in the activity of the kidney, brain, and possibly other organs as a result of systemic infection, necrosis and bleeding, and swelling around the heart. There is a different rate of survival for each of the manifestations of the plague. For those diagnosed with bubonic plague around thirteen percent of those will succumb. If diagnosed with septicemic plague…

As a veterinary technician is very important to know about diseases to educate clients about their pet’s health and try to find out what is wrong with them by asking the right questions to help figure out the right diagnostic test to be performed and figure out what the pet has. There are many different kinds of diseases affecting many species for example: infectious, immune mediated, parasitic, congenital, neoplastic, metabolic, toxic and degenerative. Congenital or genetic diseases are…

Mustard Gas, in World War I, was called the King of Battle Gases because it caused more battle causalities, as in injuries that took them out of the war and some deaths, than all of the other chemical agents used in that Great War (Everts, n.d.). This synthetic agent had an innocent beginning but rapidly became something the world rallied around to ban due to its harmful effects. In 1886 Victor Meyer first discovered the harmful effects of (ClCH2CH2)2S or what would later become known as Mustard…

Introduction: The “wonder” drug is what it was called. They believed it was like magic. It glowed in the night, it was presumed to cure cancer, it even was thought to give you eternal life, but for many innocent young girls in the 1920's, it was anything but wonderful and exquisite(Prisco). It was fatal. The chemical Radium and the Radium Girls is an event that not only affected the lives of many of these young girls but thousands of others globally who believed that radium was once one of the…

had been in a serious automobile accident where she fracture several cervical and thoracic vertebrae which required them to be fused. Complications continued in her GI tract which led to immediate surgery in her abdomen, however infection occurred, necrosis developed and several other surgeries occurred resulting in a colostomy. Due to the issue with her GI, any medication taken orally did not have desired effects thus all her medication was to be…

Gaucher disease is a genetic disorder in which glucocerebroside (a sphingolipid, also known as glucosylceramide) accumulates in cells and certain organs. Sphingolipids constitute a diverse array of lipids in which fatty acids are linked through amide bonds to a long-chain base, structurally they form the building blocks of eukaryotic membranes. Gaucher disease occurs when a enzyme is deficient. When the enzyme is defective, glucocerebroside accumulates, particularly in white blood cells and…

Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder disease that gradually the patient’s mental abilities are analyzed. The most obvious manifestation of dementia is memory disorder. Memory impairment often gradually created and progresses. At first, memory impairment and learning to recent events is limited but old memories are gradually damaged as well. For example a patient answers a question and if someone asked that question a few moments after she can’t answer it. The patient lost his personal staff…

Acute myocardial infarction is caused by the narrowing or the blocking of the coronary arteries that supply the heart muscle with oxygen. A myocardial infarction occurs when ischemic intracellular changes become irreversible and necrosis. The patient becomes more susceptible to another occurrence of a myocardial infarction or even lead up to heart failure. Coronary artery disease is the main cause of a myocardial infarction. Many patients that have an acute myocardial infarction…

THE CAUSES OF HEART ATTACK The onset of heart attack is a result of a portion of cardiac muscle having necrosis, which is caused by an obstruction of a coronary artery through artherosclerosis, a thrombus or spasm. Heart attack often occurs when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of the heart muscle becomes blocked which is mostly a result of coronary heart disease (NIH, 2012). According to National Institutes (NIH), Coronary heart disease is a condition that is as a result of a waxy…