Dakota Sick
Professor Ballenger
ENC 1101 9:30am *
11 October 2015 Sarcoidosis Sarcoidosis is like many words origin from the Greek language meaning Flesh Like or Fleshy.
Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease, although many researchers and doctors argue that Sarcoidosis auto immune disease it actually causes the immune system to become over active. Sarcoidosis can affects multiple organs but most commonly affects the lungs of about ninety percent of its patients. Sarcoidosis is when white blood cells become overactive and put out granulomas which are a collection of inflammatory cells.
The cause of sarcoidosis isn’t yet known. Mycobacteria a type of germ that causes tuberculosis was considered to be the cause. The supporting
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There has not been any reported case that animals have Sarcoidosis or that having a domestic animal will cause the disease to worsen. Sarcoidosis can decrease your chances of getting pregnant if symptoms and outbreak is severe. There have been many women that still gave birth to healthy children and no reports have been documented that the children were affected by the disease. Twenty to thirty percent of patients with the disease affect their Cardio system. Twenty three to thirty percent of patients have complete heart block while twenty five-sixty five percent of patients wind up with congestive Heart failure. Seventy percent of the patients that have sarcoidosis and have the affects in their lungs have swollen lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are used throughout your body to filter out harmful substances. Sarcoidosis can be diagnosed during an x-ray exam. The x-ray will show shadows from the swollen lymph nodes around the lungs. This is not always an effective way to determine if it is sarcoidosis the patient has, because when the lymph nodes are swollen it just means something isn’t right with the body. The symptoms this disease as well as the x-ray can point to other issue such cancer. The lymph Nodes swell when a problem has occurred such as an infection, or injury and white blood cells group to an area to heal the infected area. So the next thing to do is to take a bronchoscope and insert it in the nose or mouth then pushed in the lungs where the doctor
Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause that can affect virtually any part of the body. The medical term for Lupus is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or better known as SLE. With Lupus there is a malfunction in some of the cells of the immune system. "In Lupus, the body overreacts to an unknown stimulus and makes to many antibodies, or proteins directed against body tissue. Thus, Lupus is called an autoimmune disease. ”#
This particular bacterium is not one that inhabits a specific geographical region as it colonizes within the human body. The disease is
NOTE: LYMPH NODES ARE PART OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM WHICH INCLUDES THE SPLEEN AND THYMUS. THEY ARE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SWELLING OCCURS.
Many sarcoidosis patients do not need treatment. Sarcoidosis most of the time heals itself. The disease tend to spontaneously appear and disappear.When treatment is need is when sarcoidosis is in the lungs and other important organs, the goal is to keep the organs functionally normality.Most common antibiotic prednisone, which is a corticosteroid that reduces inflammation the affected areas in the body. Medicine that also suppress the immune system is prescribed. Surgery might be recommended to remove some of
Swelling and increased fluid in the lungs may also be a sign to look for. A steady tracking of the symptoms and health history of the person should be taken into consideration as well.
To understand autoimmune diseases, the general characteristic of autoimmunity must be addressed. Autoimmunity is defined, in short, as “ misdirected immune response”. A healthy person is equipped with the mechanisms necessary to defend the body from pathogens within the immune system. When autoimmunity is present in an individual, something within the immune system is
The lymphatic system is excellent at protecting the human body from foreign organisms that cause cancer, bacterial and viral infections. Like other body systems, the lymphatic system has many disorders. Lymphedema is when body tissues starts to swell resulting in water retention after a mastectomy or radiation therapy. A mastectomy is surgically removing a tumor from the infected breast. The axillary lymph node is removed along with the tumor; after surgery, lymphedema occurs. To determine whether the patient has lymphedema, press a finger or thumb down on the swollen area then release it to see an indentation.
Sarcoidosis is a common disease, but there are many unanswered questions about it. Identifying what causes the
Swollen lymph nodes are a symptom of impacted wisdom teeth, or at least that is what I was told that was causing the knots behind my ear when I was at the dentist. My teeth were shoving their way into my jawbone, causing the Smile Center to send me to Ruleville with an aching pain.
Sarcoidosis is a rare multi-organ granulomatous inflammatory disease that can affect virtually any organ in the body. It causes the immune system to become heightened and damages the body’s own tissues. The archetypal feature of sarcoidosis is the formation of granulomas which are essentially microscopic clumps of inflammatory cells that have grown together.(“Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research,” n.d.) It is universally characterized by T-lymphocytes and mononuclear phagocytes of the granulomas.(Houston & Mukherjee, 2014) CS occurs when the formation of granulomas and inflammation develop in the heart. CS can occur secondary to Sarcoidosis or more rarely as a clinically isolated incident. Approximately 1-5% of Sarcoid patient will develop
Sarcoidosis is a multi-system disease of unknown etiology. The diagnosis is confirmed when non-caseating granulomas are identified in tissue biopsies, predominantly from the lung parenchyma or the mediastinal lymph nodes and is supported by compatible clinical and radiological features. [1] Cardiac manifestations may occur in isolation or may precede, follow or occur concurrently with the involvement of the lungs and other organs. All components of the heart may potentially be involved. The most common are conduction abnormalities leading to bradyarrhythmias and syncope, ventricular tachycardias and the development of congestive heart failure. [2, 3]
Sometimes, there can be a fault in someone’s lymphatic system. This can result in diseases such as lymphedema, lymphoma and autoimmune system. When the lymphatic system stops working efficiently, the possibility of getting an infection or a disease increases. In addition, the drainage of excess fluid from the tissue does not work as
A 25-year-old female patient was presented with flu-like symptoms, drenching night sweats and tightness in the chest. A referral was made to the hematology oncology specialist after she experienced painful swelling on the right side of her collar bone region.Upon examination, the patient was found to have a rubbery swelling, non-tender supraclavicular enlarged lymph node. Therefore, an ultrasound of the neck was prescribed, which detected an enlarged lymph node. Hence, further tests were carried out.
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease characterised by small inflammatory nodules (granulomas) that affect the lungs and lymph nodes. Although it may occur at any age, it most commonly affects the 20-40 age group, and has familial tendencies. It is an autoimmune disease and the exact cause is unknown, but it is of current belief that the cause may be an infective agent or an allergy working in combination with susceptible genes. However, there is no evidence to support this theory; research is ongoing. Many people with sarcoidosis have no symptoms. Others have lung symptoms such as a dry hacking cough and shortness of breath, or eye and skin problems. Types of skin lesions that may occur include plaques, erythema nodosum (reddish, painful, tender
As per your description, your swollen lymph node would be reactive in origin due to inflammation of near by area.