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Acute Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and Read More …

Complicated Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and Read More …

Dumping syndrome is the rapid passage or rapid gastric emptying of food especially sugar, fluid, sweets fruits, from the stomach to the small intestine and duodenum, which leads to early gastrointestinal and vasomotor symptoms (within 1 h) and late hypoglycemia Read More …

What Is Prostatitis?/Prostatitis is inflammation or swelling of the prostate gland. When symptoms start gradually and linger for more than a couple of weeks, the condition is called chronic prostatitis. The prostate is a walnut-shaped gland that is part of Read More …

Idiopathic Transverse Myelitis/Myelitis is an acute or subacute rare demyelinating and immune-mediated inflammatory myelopathy disorder of the central nervous system and spinal cord resulting in potentially disabling neurological deficits such as motor weakness and sensory deficits, as well as autonomic Read More …

Chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is a clinical syndrome that occurs in natives or long-life residents above 2500 m. It is characterized by excessive erythrocytosis (EE; women hemoglobin (Hb) ≥ 19 g dl−1; men Hb ≥ 21 g dl−1) and severe hypoxemia which gets worse at bedtime. The etiology of Read More …

High Altitude Sickness/Acute high-altitude illness is an encompassing term for the range of pathology that the unacclimatized individual can develop at an increased altitude. This includes acute mountain sickness, high-altitude cerebral edema, and high-altitude pulmonary edema. These conditions represent an Read More …

Acute high-altitude illness is an encompassing term for the range of pathology that the unacclimatized individual can develop at an increased altitude. This includes acute mountain sickness, high-altitude cerebral edema, and high-altitude pulmonary edema. These conditions represent an increasing clinical Read More …

Polyarthritis refers to a joint disease that involves at least five joints. One or more signs of inflammation, including pain, movement restriction, swelling, warmth, and redness, are seen in the involving joints. In the event that pain is the only Read More …

Classic Dermatomyositis (CDM)/Dermatomyositis is a rare acquired or autoimmune humoral-mediated muscle disease characterized by muscle weakness and a skin rash that causes muscle inflammation and disease condition in which antigen-specific antibodies are deposited in the microvasculature, either secondary to immune Read More …

MPD1 and Distal Myopathy 1 /Laing distal myopathy is called myopathy distal, type 1 (MPD1) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited distal myopathy characterized by early-onset (usually before age 5 years) very slowly progressive, selective weakness of the great toe Read More …