... will be abnormal. (unless she is unlucky enough to inherit haemophilia from both sides of the family, which is rare.)2 The other chromosome is likely to be normal and she can therefore compensate for this defect. There are two types of haemophilia, haemophilia A and B. Haemophilia A is a hereditary disorder in which bleeding is due to deficiency of the coagulation factor VIII (VIII:C)3. In most of the cases, this coagulant protein is reduced but in a rare amount of cases, this protein is present by immunoassay but defective. Haemophilia A is the most common severe bleeding disorder and approximately 1 in 10,000 males is effected. The most common types of ...

... blockage in digestive tract, appendicitis. If the eggs hatch in a human, the larvae may cross the intestinal lining and enter the bloodstream, migrate to different organs in the body and develop into cysticerci (5 mm. - 8 in.). D. latum larvae that infect people are called plerocercoids. Depending on location and number of cysticerci, pathology can result. Ex: Cysticerosis- (Taenia genus): eyes - blindness; spinal chord - paralysis; brain - neurocysticerosis with similar symptoms to brain tumor, causing traumatic neurological damage. Persons of Sandinavian heritage are susceptible. Diphyllobothriasis - (D. latum): Abdominal distention, flatulence, crampin ...

... Asia, Southeast Mediterranean , and Oceania. This helps to show that AIDS knows no geographical boundries (Folks). This disease has been likened to the Black Plaque that decimated Europe during the middle ages. By April 1984, scientists had identified the virus responsible for AIDS and by March 1995 developed a blood test for it (Combating AIDS 355). This quick progress in the battle even lead Heckler, the secretary of health and human services, to say that a cure was just a few years away. Today, no cure is available and no sure treatment for AIDS symptoms is at hand. People are still contracting and dying from AIDS at an alarming rate. AIDS is a fata ...

... disorder, Sydenham's chorea, epilepsy, or nervous habits. The differentiation of TS from other tic syndromes may be no more than semantic, especially since recent genetic evidence links TS with multiple tics. Transient tics of childhood are best defined in retrospect. At times it may be difficult to distinguish children with extreme attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from TS. Many ADHD children, on close examination, have a few phonic or motor tics, grimace, or produce noises similar to those of TS. Since at least half of the TS patients also have attention deficits and hyperactivity as children, a physician may well be confused. Howe ...

... the average age of onset has steadily increased to over 50 years of age, with males more often affected than females. It's prevalence is about 1 in 7500, with about 40,000 cases in the United States. It is not known to be inherited but first-degree relatives have a 1000x greater risk of developing MG than the general population, suggesting a genetic predisposition. Clinical Features The cardinal feature of MG is muscle weakness and fatiguability. The muscles most commonly affected are the oculomotors, which cause ptosis or diplopia. MG can also commonly present with oropharyngeal muscle weakness. The patient may regurgitate food through the nose, be unable to ...

... body. The most common causes of death for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma, which afflict 70% of the infected people. AIDS is transmitted in three ways. Intimate sexual contact is the most common. While direct contact with infected blood and transactions to babies from the infected mother's fetus will also cause the disease. Although some speculation, you cannot receive the disease from air, food, water, or insects. AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is a sentence of slow but inevitable death. There currently is no cure or vaccine for this disease. There are drugs that have been proven effective in slowing the ...

... become a paramedic takes a lot of training and requirements, but there is constantly room for advancing, and the result of saving someones life is well worth it. A paramedic experiences much stress and sometimes trauma every day that he or she is on the job. The thrill of a paramedic is only part that you get to see, but there is much more involved in this career than you or even I know of. The career of a Emergency Medical Technician involves saving lives. The E.M.S. is only as strong as its weakest link (Caroline,3). During the 1960’s people and associations began wondering if there was any possible way to operate a ambulance and adminis ...

... men. Circumcision is now a societal norm in the United States. Routine circumcision is the most widely practiced pediatric surgery and an estimated one to one-and-a-half million newborns, or 80 to 90 percent of the population, are circumcised. (Lund, 1990) Despite these statistics, circumcision still remains a topic of great debate. The medical community is examining the need for a surgical procedure that is historically based on religious and cultural doctrine and not of medical necessity. Possible complications of circumcision include hemorrhage, infection, surgical trauma, and pain. (Gelbaum, 1992) Unless absolute medical indications exist, why should male ...

... muscle strain or further injury for the patient. INTRODUCTION When lifting, transferring or positioning patients, the most important consideration is safety. Any of these procedures need to be undertaken with it in mind. This safety is inclusive of both the patient and the health care worker. Communication is an important part of the lifting process as the nurse should elicit information from the client to find out how and when they prefer to be moved. This allows the patient to be involved in the decision making process and be fully aware of what is occurring. By communicating with the client, the nurse is also aware of whether or not the patie ...

... a hereditary disease. ~ ALD is a recessive trait. ~ ALD is carried on the X chromosome. ~ It is transmitted by the female. ~ It occurs in 1 out of 100,000 males. ~ May skip a generation. ~ Female offspring may become carriers of the disease. Symptoms & Effects ~Difficulties with speech in a noisy room or over the telephone ~Visual disturbances i.e. Field cuts, strabismus, & visual activity ~ Focal or generalized seizures ~Hyperactivity ~Tends to progress rapidly with increased spasticity and paralysis, visual and hearing loss, loss of ability to speak or swallow. ~Inability to move themselves anywhere at all from one place to another. Diet ...