patodra

@patodra (21)

China • Age 53

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what do u know about bell palsy?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Bell's palsy is a paralysis of cranial nerve VII (the facial nerve) resulting in inability to control facial muscles on the affected side. Several conditions can cause a facial paralysis, e.g., brain tumor, stroke, and Lyme...

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patodra Bell's palsy is defined as an idiopathic unilateral facial nerve paralysis, usually self-limiting. The trademark is rapid onset of partial or complete palsy, usually in a single day. It is thought that an inflammatory condition leads to swelling of the facial...

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what do u know about polyneuropathy?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Polyneuropathy is a neurological disorder that occurs when many peripheral nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously. It may be acute and appear without warning, or chronic and develop gradually over a longer period of...

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patodra Evaluation and classification of polyneuropathies begins with a history and physical exam in order to document what the pattern of the disease process is (arms, legs, distal, proximal, symmetric), when they started, how long they've lasted, if they fluctuate,...

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what do u know about devic disease?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Devic's disease, also known as Devic's syndrome or neuromyelitis optica (NMO), is an autoimmune, inflammatory disorder in which a person's own immune system attacks the optic nerves and spinal cord. This produces an inflammation...

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patodra Devic's disease is a rare disorder which resembles multiple sclerosis (MS) in several ways, but requires a different course of treatment for optimal results.[2] NMO has also been suggested to be a variant form of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.[3][4] The...

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what do u know about rhabdomyolysis?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Rhabdomyolysis is the rapid breakdown (lysis) of skeletal muscle tissue (rhabdomyo) due to injury to muscle tissue. The muscle damage may be caused by physical (e.g. crush injury), chemical, or biological factors. The destruction...

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patodra Rhabdomyolysis and its complications are major problems in people who are injured in disasters such as earthquakes and bombing. The disease and its mechanisms were first elucidated in the Blitz of London in 1941

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what do u know about syringomyelia?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Syringomyelia (IPA: /s??r??go?ma?'i?li?/) is a generic term referring to a disorder in which a cyst or cavity forms within the spinal cord. This cyst, called a syrinx, can expand and elongate over time, destroying the spinal cord....

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patodra Other, more common disorders share the early symptoms of syringomyelia. In the past, this has made diagnosis difficult. The advent of one diagnostic test, however, called magnetic resonance imaging or MRI, has significantly increased the number of...

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what do u know about Canine degenerative myelopathy?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Canine degenerative myelopathy (also known as chronic degenerative radiculomyelopathy) is a progressive disease of the spinal cord in older dogs. The disease has an insidious onset typically between 7 and 14 years of age. It...

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patodra The myelin is an insulating sheath around neurons in the spinal cord. One proposed cause of degenerative myelopathy is that the immune system attacks this sheath, breaking it down. This results in a loss of communication between nerves in lower body of the...

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what do u know about vascular myelopathy?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Vascular myelopathy (vascular disease of the spinal cord) refers to an abnormality of the spinal cord in regards to its blood supply.[1] The blood supply is complicated and supplied by two major vessel groups: the posterior spinal...

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patodra Anterior spinal artery syndrome is necrosis of tissue in the anterior spinal artery or it's branches.[4] It is characterised by pain which radiates at onset and sudden quadraplegia (paralysis of all four limbs) or paraplegia (paralysis of the lower body)....

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what do u know about ALS?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, sometimes called Maladie de Charcot) is a progressive, usually fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous system that...

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patodra Cognitive function is generally spared except in certain situations such as when ALS is associated with frontotemporal dementia.[1] However, there are reports of more subtle cognitive changes of the frontotemporal type in many patients when detailed...

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what do u know about muscular dystrophy?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Muscular dystrophy (MD) refers to a group of genetic, hereditary muscle diseases that weaken the muscles that move the human body.[1][2] Muscular dystrophies are characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in...

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patodra The first historical account of muscular dystrophy appeared in 1830, when Sir Charles Bell wrote an essay about an illness that caused progressive weakness in boys. Six years later, another scientist reported on two brothers who developed generalized weakness,...

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what do u know about paralysis?

sejakuvara @sejakuvara (20) • China 12 Mar 09

Paralysis is most often caused by damage to the nervous system or brain, especially the spinal cord. Major causes are stroke, trauma, poliomyelitis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), botulism, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis,...

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patodra Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. Paralysis can cause loss of feeling or loss of mobility in the affected area Paralysis may be localized, or generalized, or it may follow a certain pattern. Most paralyses...

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what do u know about headache?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

In medicine a headache or cephalalgia is a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and sometimes neck. Some of the causes are benign while others are medical emergencies. It ranks among the most common pain...

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what do u know about migraine?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

Migraine is a neurological syndrome characterized by altered bodily perceptions, headaches, and nausea. Physiologically, the migraine headache is a neurological condition more common to women than to men. Etymologically, the...

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what do u know about SAH?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

A subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH, pronounced /?s?b?'rækn??d 'h?m(?)r?d?/, or subarachnoid haemorrhage in British English) is bleeding into the subarachnoid space—the area between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater surrounding...

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what do u know about multiple sclerosis?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS, also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system, leading to demyelination.[1]...

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what do u know about MG?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

Myasthenia gravis (literally "serious muscle-weakness"; from Greek µ?? "muscle", "weakness", and Latin gravis "serious"; abbreviated MG) is a neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability. It is an...

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what do u know about TIA?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

A transient ischemic attack (TIA, often colloquially referred to as “mini stroke”) is caused by the changes in the blood supply to a particular area of the brain, resulting in brief neurologic dysfunction that persists, by...

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what do u know about cerebral infarction?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

A cerebral infarction is the ischemic kind of stroke due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. It can be atherothrombotic or embolic.[1] From stroke caused by cerebral infarction two other kinds of...

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what do u know about epilepsy?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

Epilepsy (from the Greek ep?????a /epili?psia/ ) is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures.[1][2] These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or...

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what do u know about diarrhea , in a medical way?

patodra @patodra (21) • China 12 Mar 09

about me.. In medicine, diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea (see spelling differences), is characterized by frequent loose or liquid bowel movements. The spelling of "diarrhea" is an appropriation of the Greek "diarrhoia" meaning "a...

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