Scleroderma Case Study Summary

Currently, there is no cure or medication that has been proven to modify or slow the course of the disease [5,6]. SCA3 is multifactorial and treatment is individualized; Treatment is determined by the symptoms that are presented from case-to-case. The primary goal of the symptomatic treatment is to improve the quality of lives of these individuals, as there are no curative options [6]. Medications are accepted and widely used to reduce symptoms of certain underlying conditions such as depression, fatigue, and pain. Pain itself plays a large role in the treatment of this disease. Nearly all patients with SCA3 report pain and fatigue associated their other symptoms [4]. SCA3 is treated using a team approach with physical therapy, occupational

-Stage 1:Involvement of ipsilateral pleura and respiration {affecting just one bronchi either remaining or right lung}

Multiple Sclerosis is a nervous system disease that disturbs the brain and spinal cord (Rolak,2005). Initially affects the myelin sheath, the material that covers and protects your nerve cells. Multiple Sclerosis causes demyelination (Rolak,2005). The nerve damage is caused by inflammation (Rolak,2005). Inflammation occurs when the body’s own immune cells attack the nervous system (Rolak,2005). This can happen in any area of the brain, optic nerve, or spinal cord (Rolak,2005). It is unknown what exactly causes Multiple Sclerosis (Rolak,2005). It is considered to be a virus and environmental factors may also play a role (Rolak,2005). A person’s immune cells begins to attack the central nervous system and degenerate (Rolak,2005).

Eczema is a skin disorder which some people are born with eczema.Eczema is a skin disorder which some of the symptoms are dry skin, red patches in the skin, itching and painful nights of no sleep because of the itchings. There's no cure for eczema but there is treatment such as bathing, over the counter medication and using bleach, vinegar, oatmeal or evening using baking soda when taking a bath. It helpful to moisture after bathing or showering, by keeping the skin moisture it help the symptoms be calm and reduce the itching , redness and the dyers of skin.

My family represents my world. My parents have to sacrificed work time and career plans to take me to doctor visits and provide me with all the extra medical care needed. Both of my parents have always been there to support and guide me, especially in the difficult times. At the age of three, I was diagnosed with scleroderma. Scleroderma is a chronic connective tissue disease that involves the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissues. This disease has made life goals more challenging and difficult to accomplish. But I believe has given me more strength to stay stronger that I can anything accomplish anything that I put my mind to. At school, I have managed to develop into a strong person who can multitask between school and doctor appointments. Despite I have stayed focused on my goals. My goals are to transfer, attend a university

Pneumothorax can have a wide continuum of severity, ranging from simple asymptomatic pneumothorax caused by disruption

Patient F.F. is a 75-year-old female that arrived to the emergency room and admitted to the floor for left lobe pneumonia from an exacerbation from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Upon my assessment, the patient was short of breath and required 2 liters of oxygen by nasal cannula to prevent use of accessory muscles and loss of breath. Wheezes were present in the lower lobes of the lungs and breath sounds were diminished. The patient’s oxygen level was 95% on 2 liters of oxygen, but once the oxygen was removed, the oxygen level would drop down to 88%. A productive cough was present with green sputum. The patient reported feeling ‘weak’ and ‘unable to get around like [she] used to.’

Working in the health field, we are bound to come across many patients experiencing unique disorders and conditions that we may not be experts on. However, due to our detailed training, we learn how to properly assess and break down the observed conditions to really determine the best treatment options for our patient. The condition I got to research is called “scleroderma.” When you look at the disorder itself, we can see the two Greek words: sclero and derma. With “sclero” meaning hard, and “derma” meaning skin, we can come to presume that scleroderma is the hardening of skin.

Recurrent erythema multiforme (EM) is an uncommon skin condition with unclear etiology considered to be a hypersensitivity reaction presenting commonly in young adults with distinctive targetoid skin lesions with or without mucosal lesions. These cases are typically treated with antiviral therapies or immunosuppressive agents in more extreme cases. We present a case of recurrent EM in a young adult that resolved completely after treatment with Otezla (apremilast), an oral medication originally developed for the treatment of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a complex, polygenic autoimmune disease that affects approximately 75,000 to 100,000 people in the United States. There are approximately 20 new cases per million per year and a total of 250 patients per million [1, 2]. SSc typically presents at approximately 40 years of age and is more common in women than in men [3]. SSc is a very heterogeneous disease where patients can display a variety of symptoms: the three most common symptoms are tissue and organ fibrosis, vasculopathy and autoimmunity/autoantibody production.

In this study, we have presented the data of 40 patients who were divided into two groups. Group I (20 patients) in whom Tru-cut needle biopsy was performed guided by ultrasonography for the diag-nosis of pleural lesions and group II (20 patients) who under-went thoracoscopy for the diagnosis of undiagnosed pleural lesions.

The human nerve system is very essential interactions between people, dealing with daily challenges, and making important decisions. Therefore, when the nerve system gets affected by a disease or a disorder it can be very difficult to complete those simple tasks. An example for this kind of disease is Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease that affects the nerve system, which consist of the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves in the eye. Discussions about MS’s symptoms, treatments, and prognosis would be very helpful to further understand it.

Pulmonary Emphysema falls into the group of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It can be defined as when the airspaces away from the bronchioles become abnormally enlarged, and become permanent. There are many risk factors for this disease such as smoking, the most common. Many symptoms of this disease include rapid breathing that is abnormal, To evaluate if a person has emphysema, a CT scan is the best option because it is able to differentiate between different types compared to a chest x-ray, which is only used to eliminate other possible lung problems such as an infection. Unfortunately, there is no cure for emphysema, but treatment is used to preserve remaining lung tissue such as pulmonary rehabilitation, smoking cessation,

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease which involves several organs, including the skin and the kidneys. A singular cause for SLE is not yet known, but several have been proposed, including a genetic component [1] or the improper removal and/or cleanup of apoptotic and necrotic cells [2]. This causes nuclear antigens, such as double-stranded DNA, the SS-A/RO and SS-B/La proteins and endoplasmatic reticulum fragments [3], to be exposed to the immune system, inducing the production of antibodies. Eventually the antigen-antibody complexes can form plaques in several tissues, causing damage through tissue-specific mechanisms [4]. The damage to the tissues ultimately manifest as symptoms that allow diagnosis of SLE.

Long term and high dose treatment on bromocriptine reported unexplained disorders related to pleuropulmoary – a rare cancer originating in the lung. It occurs most often in infants or young children, rarely in adults. In this case, treatments were stopped.