sejakuvadra

@sejakuvadra (20)

China • Age 54

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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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sejakuvadra Epilepsies are classified in five ways: By their first cause (or etiology). By the observable manifestations of the seizures, known as semiology. By the location in the brain where the seizures originate. As a part of discrete, identifiable medical...

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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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sejakuvadra The classification of headaches has a rich history. The first recorded system that resembles the modern ones was published by Thomas Willis, in De Cephalagia in 1672. In 1787 Christian Baur generally divided headaches into idiopathic (primary headaches) and...

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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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sejakuvadra symptoms include nausea, vomiting, photophobia (increased sensitivity to bright light), and hyperacusis (increased sensitivity to noise); [2][3][4] approximately one third of people who suffer migraine headache perceive an aura — visual, olfactory — announcing...

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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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sejakuvadra Symptoms of SAH include a severe headache with a rapid onset ("thunderclap headache"), vomiting, confusion or a lowered level of consciousness, and sometimes seizures.[1] The diagnosis is generally confirmed with a CT scan of the head, or occasionally by...

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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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sejakuvadra MS affects the ability of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to communicate with each other. Nerve cells communicate by sending electrical signals called action potentials down long fibers called axons, which are wrapped in an insulating substance called...

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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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sejakuvadra The most widely accepted classification of myasthenia gravis is the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Clinical Classification:[2] Class I: Any eye muscle weakness, possible ptosis, no other evidence of muscle weakness elsewhere Class II: Eye muscle...

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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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sejakuvadra Symptoms vary widely from person to person, depending on the area of the brain involved. The most frequent symptoms include temporary loss of vision (typically amaurosis fugax); difficulty speaking (aphasia); weakness on one side of the body (hemiparesis); and...

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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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sejakuvadra symptoms, the stroke episode is classified as total anterior circulation infarct (TACI), partial anterior circulation infarct (PACI), lacunar infarct (LACI) or posterior circulation infarct (POCI). These four entities predict the extent of the stroke, the area...

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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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sejakuvadra Diarrhea commonly results from gastroenteritis caused by viral infections, parasites or bacterial toxins.[2] In sanitary living conditions where there is ample food and a supply of clean water, an otherwise healthy patient usually recovers from viral...

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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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sejakuvadra Clinicians should determine whether the forehead muscles are spared. Due to an anatomical peculiarity, forehead muscles receive innervation from both sides of the brain. The forehead can therefore still be wrinkled by a patient whose facial palsy is caused by...

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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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sejakuvadra These disorders are often symmetric and frequently involve distal extremities erve biopsy is not used much, but is helpful in determining small fiber neuropathy Nerve, nerve root, plexus Cranial nerve disease V (Trigeminal neuralgia) · VII (Facial nerve...

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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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sejakuvadra Most research into the pathology of Devic's disease has focused on the spinal cord. The damage in the spinal cord can range from inflammatory demyelination to necrotic damage of the white and grey matter. The inflammatory lesions in Devic's disease have been...

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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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sejakuvadra Release of the components of muscle tissue into the bloodstream leads to disturbances in electrolytes, causing nausea, vomiting, confusion, coma and cardiac arrhythmias (abnormal heart rate and rhythm). Furthermore, damage to the kidneys may lead to dark...

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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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sejakuvadra A number of medical conditions can cause an obstruction in the normal flow of cerebrospinal fluid, redirecting it into the spinal cord itself. For reasons that are only now becoming clear, this results in syrinx formation. Cerebrospinal fluid fills the syrinx....

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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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sejakuvadra The etiology of this disease is unknown. Recent research has shown that a mutation in the SOD1 is a risk factor for developing degnerative myelopathy in several breeds.[2] Mutations in SOD1 are also associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou...

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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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sejakuvadra Spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVMs, or angiomatous malformations) are congenital (from birth) abnormalities of blood vessels. Arteries that directly communicate with veins bypass the capillary network (which has not yet developed) and thus creates a...

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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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sejakuvadra Familial ALS" accounts for approximately 5%–10% of all ALS cases and is caused by genetic factors. Of these, approximately 1 in 10 are linked to a mutation in copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1), an enzyme responsible for scavenging free radicals. A recent...

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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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sejakuvadra Symptoms Principal symptoms include: Progressive Muscular Wasting (weakness) Poor Balance Frequent Falls Walking Difficulty Waddling Gait Calf Pain Limited Range of Movement Muscle Contractures Respiratory Difficulty Drooping Eyelids...

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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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sejakuvadra Another type of paralysis is caused by a fibrocartilaginous embolism. This is a microscopic piece of disc material that breaks off and becomes lodged in a spinal artery. Nerves served by the artery will die when deprived of blood. The German Shepherd is...

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