Health and Medical Care Tips
Replacement of lung parenchyma with fibrous tissue is termed as fibrosis of the lung. It usually occurs due to a reparative or a reactive process.
Causes of pulmonary fibrosis are
Infections
Pneumoconiosis
Results from breathing in coal dust [Read more...]
1. Trauma
2. Tuberculosis
3. Tumors
4. Acute Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis
5. Bleeding Disorders like Hemophilia
6. Coxsackie B virus infection
Unilateral Pleural Effusion
1. Trauma
2. Acute Pancreatitis
3. Pulmonary Infarction
4. Rupture of Esophagus
5. Dissecting aneurysm of aorta with leakage into pleural space
6. Infections
7. Pleural Metastasis
8. Tumors of lung
9. Pleural metastasis
10 Rheumatoid diseases, SLE
7. Penetrating chest wounds
8.
Pediatricians should offer routine HIV testing to adolescent and young adult patients, American Academy of Pediatrics recommends in academy’s new policy statement published November print issue of Pediatrics.
It says
In light of the increasing numbers of people with HIV/AIDS and missed opportunities for HIV testing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…recommends universal and routine HIV screening rather than targeted testing.
Treatment with gantenerumab, an anti–amyloid-β monoclonal antibody, results in a dose-dependent reduction in brain amyloid in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease, a small trial shows.
However the study found no effects on cognitive measures and doubts whether any reduction in brain amyloid level will translate into clinical efficacy.
Findings were reported online October 10 in the Archives of Neurology. [Read more...]
Prematurely born babies have a very high risk for epilepsy, not only at age 5 or 6, but as young adults in their 20s and 30s. the fact has been pointed by a recent cohort study from Sweden led by Casey Crump, MD.
The study found that people who were born very preterm [23 to 31 weeks of gestation] had a 5-fold increased risk for epilepsy at the ages of 25 to 37 years when compared those who were born full-term.
The study has been published in the October issue of Neurology. [Read more...]
There are are two sources of fluid in our body
Water is lost from the body by following routes
Varicose veins are veins that have become enlarged and tortuous.
The term commonly refers to the veins on the leg.
Varicose Veins In Left Leg
Varicose Veins in the above photograph were seen in a 56 years old male who visited the OPD for some other ailment.
Recurrent bleeding episodes in a joint can lead to chronic changes in the joint occur. These changes affect all of the tissues within and surrounding the joint: synovium and cartilage, capsule and ligaments, bone and muscles.
Chronic synovitis is usually seen in the first and second decades of life and the management of chronic hemophilic arthropathy depends on the stage at which it is seen.
Following stages are seen in hemarthroses in hemophilia. [Read more...]
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