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How Can Protect Your Oral Health

How Can You Protect Your Oral Health? Having a dental plan ensures an individual’s teeth are healthy and well maintained. A person with a dental plan can also save money by avoiding the high cost of immediate teeth and gum treatments. Importance of dental care Everyone needs to maintain their teeth for healthy gums and [...]

Echinococcosis or Hydatid Disease Infection Causes Signs and Symptoms Diagnosis with Treatment

ECHINOCOCCOSIS OR HYDATID DISEASE Infection in humans is caused by larva of Echinococcus granulosus. The definitive hosts are dogs. ECHINOCOCCOSIS OR HYDATID DISEASE Infection in humans Eggs’are passed in the faeces of dogs. Cysts develop in man after ingestion of eggs. HYDATID DISEASE Infection in humans is caused by larva of Echinococcus granulosus Etiology OF ECHINOCOCCOSIS OR HYDATID [...]

Chronic pancreatitis Causes Symptoms Diagnosis and Treatment

Chronic pancreatitis Diseases Symptoms Diagnosis and Treatment Chronic pancreatitis Pregentation · Abdominal pain · Steatorrhea. A form of pancreatitis that results from repeated or massive pancreatic injury, marked by the formation of scar tissue, which leads to malfunction of the pancreas Irreversible: Progressive destruction of the pancreas Results in both exocrine and endocrine deficiencies Pain, [...]

ACUTE PANCREATITIS Symptoms Diagnosis and Treatment

ACUTE PANCREATITIS Symptoms Diagnosis and Treatment ACUTE PANCREATITIS acute inflammatory process of the pancreas. It is usually associated with severe acute upper abdominal pain and elevated blood levels of pancreatic enzymes The pancreas secretes 1500 to 3000 ml of pancreatic fluid with about 20 enzymes. The disease may be relatively mild, resolving in 3 or [...]

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases(IBD) Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Inflammatory Bowel Disease (I BD) is an idiopathic and chronic intestinal inflammation. It is of 2 major types : Ulcerative colitis UC) Crohn’s diseas (C.D) The factors associated with increased incidence of IBD are smoking, oral contraceptive, family history, genetic predisposition, hypogammaglobulinaemia, emotional stress. The term for a number of chronic, relapsing [...]

Diarrhea Causes Diagnosis Symptoms Treatment

Diarrhea Causes Diagnosis Symptoms Treatment Diarrhea Diarrhea is passage of abnormally liquid or unformed stools at an increased frequency. The following definitions have been suggested according to the duration of diarrhea Acute — ≤ 14 days in duration Persistent diarrhea — more than 14 days in duration Chronic — more than 30 days in duration [...]

Peptic Ulcer Causes Examination Diagnosis and Treatment

Peptic Ulcer Peptic Ulcer Causes Examination Diagnosis and Treatment An ulcer is a disruption of mucosal lining of stomach and or duodenum due to active inflammation. Ulcers are usually chronic in nature. Peptic ulcer disease is a common illness, affecting about 10% of men and 5% of women during their lifetimes Agents which may damage [...]

HYPER ACIDITY Caused by H.pylori Gram-Negative diagnosis Treatment Signs and symptoms

All about Bacterial Infections Caused by HELICOBACTER PYLORI Gram-Negative HELICOBACTER PYLORI with diagnosis Treatment Signs and symptoms HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION A motile, spiral, gram-negative bacterium that causes peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. It is treated with combined antibiotics and agents to block gastric acid secretion Helicobacter pylori, also known as H. pylori, is a bacterium that [...]

Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) and Pyelonephritis Clinical Presentations Treatment

Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) and Pyelonephritis Urinary Tract infections may be : 1. Lower tract infection – Urethritis and cystitis 2. Upper tract infection – Acute pyelonephritis, prostatitis, intrarenal and perinephric abscesses. Acute pyelonephritis is a syndrome caused by an infection of the renal parenchyma and renal pelvis, often producing localized flank or back pain combined [...]

Sepsis (Septic Shock) Prognosis Prevention TREATMENT

Sepsis (Septic Shock) Prognosis Prevention TREATMENT TREATMENT Sepsis (Septic Shock) Admit in ICU Treat local site of infection Monitor hemodynamics. Sepsis is a clinical syndrome characterized by systemic inflammation due to infection. There is a continuum of severity ranging from sepsis to severe sepsis and septic shock. Antimicrobial therapy in Sepsis (Septic Shock) Ceftriaxone 2gjday [...]

Sepsis (Septic Shock) Clinical Manifestation Complications with Laboratory Findings

Sepsis (Septic Shock) CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS There is some primary infection or disease. Mild sepsis chan,ges to severe, and to septic shock. Patient may be hormo, hypo or hyper thermic i.e. fever normal, low or high Fever is absent in neonates, elderly, alcoholics and in uremia. Hyperventilation is early sign. Then there is disorientation, confusion, encephalopathy. [...]

Sepsis (Septic Shock) Definition Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Sepsis & Septic Shock Sepsis is a clinical syndrome characterized by systemic inflammation due to infection. Whenever there is infection there is a reaction from host involving various responses. Systemic responses to infection: · Fever · Hypothermia · Tachypnea · Tachycardia. Sepsis DEFINITIONS There is a continuum of severity ranging from sepsis to severe sepsis [...]

Treatment of Pneumonia Antibiotic Therapy in Resistant Pneumonia

Treatment of Pneumonia ,INDICATIONS FOR HOSPITALIZATION in Pneumonia ,Resistant Pneumonia defined as an acute infection of the pulmonary parenchyma in a patient who has acquired the infection in the community, as distinguished from hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia, No comorbidities or recent antibiotic use and Comorbidities or recent antibiotic use Treatment according the condition. The diagnostic approach [...]

Pneumonia Signs and Symptoms Pathophysiology Types of Pneumonia

Pneumonia Signs and Symptoms Pathophysiology Types of Pneumonia clinical presentation of childhood pneumonia often is dictated by the responsible pathogen, the particular host, and the severity of the pneumonia. Inflammation of the lungs, usually due to infection with bacteria, viruses, or other pathogenic organisms. Clinically, the term “pneumonia” is used to indicate an infectious disease [...]

Infective Endocarditis Causes of Infective Endocarditis TREATMENT of Infective Endocarditis

Infective Endocarditis CLINICAL FEATURES of infective Endocarditis (IE) causes the Infective Endocarditis With TREATMENT of infective Endocarditis (IE) Proliferation of microorganisms on the endothelium of heart results in infective endocarditis. The typical feature-of the· disease is vegetation. Endocarditis may be caused by any microorganism; of streptococci or staphylococci; Haemophilus spp. or other HACEK bacteria [...]

Rheumatic Fever Causes of Rheumatic fever Diagnosis Rheumatic fever TREATMENT

Rheumatic Fever Signs and symptoms Diagnosis of Rheumatic fever Causes with treatment – Rheumatic fever is acute or first presentation of infection by Streptococcus leading to sore throat, fever, arthritis and/or carditis. A multisystem, febrile inflammatory disease that is a delayed complication of untreated group A streptococcal pharyngitis. Pharyngitis usually occurs two to four weeks [...]

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