DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Infections
Infection
An infection is the colonization of a host organism by parasite species. Infecting parasites seek to use the host's resources to reproduce, often resulting in disease. Colloquially, infections are usually considered to be caused by microscopic organisms or microparasites like viruses, prions, bacteria, and viroids, though larger organisms like macroparasites and fungi can also infect. Hosts normally fight infections themselves via their immune system. Mammalian hosts react to infections with an innate response, often involving inflammation, followed by an adaptive response...
Infections - List of case studies
- Melanoma with metastases
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exercise judiciously and promptly treat any and all skin infections. Prognosis In ...
- Mild Alzheimer’s disease – additional opinion
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and performing a lumbar puncture to evaluate for chronic infections and neoplastic conditions and for measurement of Tau protein ... mixed dementia , vascular brain disease, chronic infections , neoplastic conditions , depression , ...
- Psychomotor retardation due to spinal amyotrophy
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from gastroesophageal reflux and recurrent respiratory infections, at times with broncospasm. In addition, psychomotor retardation was ... In pathological clinical history, recurring respiratory infections , at times with broncospasm , treated orally with antibiotics ...
- List of Diseases and Conditions
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with immune-complexes deposition Chronic infections Chronic ischaemic cardiopathy Chronic lack of iodine ...
- IgG Multiple Myeloma
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by the toxicity of the procedure – especially infections and graft-versus-host disease. Moreover, a donor must be available ...
- Facial pain after thyroidectomy
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facial pain (left>right), dry mouth and recurrent local infections. She was diagnosed with bilateral sialadenitis, and was repeatedly ... sialadenitis). Dry mouth and recurrent local infections was repeatedly treated with endoscopy and repeat washing . ...
- Chromosome 22 micro-deletion syndrome
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a decreased number of T lymphocyte with propensity to infections . In such instances treatment should be very ...
- Back Pain with Partial Sensory Leg Anesthesia
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following spinal surgeries. The most common are wound infections (1%-3%), recurrent disc herniations (about 10%), scar formation, ... adjacent disc disease, neurologic deficit, wound infections, recurrent disc herniations, , scar formation, neurologic deficit, ...
- Autoimmune hepatitis/cholangitis in patient with Crohn’s disease.
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IV fluids and steroids). Stents can lead to recurrent infections in immune suppressed patient. Recurrent attacks of colangitis will ...