A Disease of the Integumentary System September 28‚ 2011 Abstract There are many diseases that affect the Integumentary system‚ due in some part to the fact that it contains the largest organ in the human body‚ which is the skin. The some of these diseases can be seen as rashes‚ dark spots‚ or just patches of itchy areas. The disease that will be discussed in throughout this paper is called Alopecia Areata. One will cover areas such as a description of the disease‚ as well as the causes‚
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Asthma Asthma is a respiratory disease. Asthma has a high reactivity of the bronchial tubes to various stimuli and that reaction blocks air flow by narrowing and obstructing the trachea and lungs. (Woollbert‚ Robert‚ 1996) This causes difficulty breathing‚ and while it’s normally temporary and reversible it can still be life threatening. Normally a person with Asthma has triggers. There are two main sections triggers fall under‚ a viral illness or an allergy. A viral illness is
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There are several diseases and disorders of the nervous system. The nervous system is an important system because the brain is the main component. Once‚ the brain has been impaired; the human body does not function properly and can become deadly. Also‚ diseases of the nervous system often last for the rest of someone’s life. Three common nervous systems disorders include: Parkinson’s disease‚ epilepsy‚ and strokes. Parkinson’s disease is one of the few neurological disorders that also has physical
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gift of normality. In this harsh world people are dying of all types of diseases and things that are undetectable or even treatable due to the fact that they have unknown origins. Many of the world’s diseases such as HIV‚ AIDS‚ some cases of Multiple Sclerosis and Muscular Dystrophies. Among these fatal and life threatening ailments Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease‚ other wise known as (CJD)‚ takes precedence. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is an unusual‚ degenerative‚ consistently terminal brain disorder
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Correlation Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Parkinson’s Disease Trisakti University of Medicine I Made Setiadji 030.09.114 Jakarta‚ June 14th 2012 Abstract A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients had insufficient levels of vitamin D. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common form of neurodegeneration in the elderly population. In PD‚ one’s levels of dopamine are lowered because the nerve cells which make the chemical have either died or lost their usual functioning. Clinically
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With Hirschsprung’s Disease “Jaylen has Hisrchsprung’s disease.” When I heard those words‚ my first reaction was‚ “what is Hirschsprung’s disease?” I soon learned that it is a congenital condition which results from an absence of “Auerbach’s plexus“(Swenson “Diagnosis”). In layman’s terms‚ “a part of the bowel is missing nerves . . . This causes a blockage. Intestinal contents build up behind the blockage‚ causing the bowel and abdomen to become swollen” (Hirschsprung’s disease). Statistics show
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Cell Disease Blood has been considered the essence of life for centuries‚ and our blood is a living tissue made up of liquid and solids. There are many diseases related to blood such as anemia which is the decrease in oxygen supply to tissue and causes hypoxia‚ thalassemia is the mutation in one or more globin gene of hemoglobin‚ etc. Therefore‚ one of blood disorders is the most common symptomatic hemoglobinopathy with the greatest prevalence in worldwide which is called sickle cell disease. Sickle
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chronic diseases. Since we all know that we can safely eat a candy or even as many as thousands of candies or lay on the couch watching television day after day without seeing any immediate harmful effects‚ it can be difficult to imagine that we are slowly developing chronic diseases over time. This concept of developing diseases over time from the specific lifestyle choices that each of us makes‚ is known as chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL). It is unfortunate that these chronic diseases of lifestyle
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Running Head: CHOICE VS. DISEASE Addiction: Choice vs. Disease Danny O’Dell Kaplan University CM220-14AU Professor Pappas January 16‚ 2010 Johnny ’s heart is beating at over a hundred and thirty beats per minute. He can ’t sleep again and is sweating profusely. Johnny hears a voice saying "Don ’t do it Johnny. You know how this will end." Then he hears another louder‚ more insistent voice
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of BSE. The symptoms of this disease are similar to those in cattle. People with vCJD begin to lose their memory‚ and are unable to concentrate. They may experience a change in personality‚ emotional disturbance‚ or even madness (basically tired and crazy). The incubation period of this disease is from years to decades. The average age of death with classic CJD is 68 years. However‚ the average age of death with vCJD is 28 years. When the first signs of the disease surface‚ the infected person
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