Explanation During a school nurse visit, Person A, who was 15 years old and active as well as had an outstanding academic performance, was prescribed antibiotics after being diagnosed with strep throat infection. Her height and weight were recorded to be 5’3’’ and 107 lb, respectively. Four months later, Person A was 96 pounds and appeared tired with decreased appetite. She reported to have suffered from sinus and other infections; besides that, it was hard to train her for sports activities. Her doctor advised her to decrease her training and eat more to which she agreed. But in early June, when Person A was examined by her physician for a pre-employment physical examination, she was 91 pounds and that concerned her physician although Person A assures that she feels and looks fine. On the MD physician’s reference, she consulted an outpatient clinical dietician, and it was then that her dependence on diet beverages came to light. Person A strongly disagrees on using dietary aids, claiming to have enough will power to reduce food intake. However, she is not willing to reduce the intensity of her training, which was a sign of compensatory exercise, which in medical terms is a form of purging...

Long-term outcome and prognosis of Person A’s issue. Introduction: A person’s dietary plan and behavioral pattern are usually very important in predicting the long-term outcome of a given medical condition. Anorexia nervosa is a psychological eating disorder in which the person abstains from having nutritious food in time. Patients with this syndrome are typically characterized by low body weight with respect to age and height as compared to the unaffected individuals. As a result, various systems in the body are compromised. The persons suffer from fear of becoming overweight, but it can result in development of serious life-threatening conditions in the long term. Person A is suspected to have long-term effects of the current eating issue. Anorexia nervosa is a psychological eating disorder typically characterized by low body weight with respect to age and height of the affected individuals. These individuals have fear of becoming overweight which adversely affects their eating habits and patterns and can result in development of serious life-threatening conditions.

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To determine: Long-term outcome and prognosis of Person A’s issue.

Introduction: A person’s dietary plan and behavioral pattern are usually very important in predicting the long-term outcome of a given medical condition. Anorexia nervosa is a psychological eating disorder in which the person abstains from having nutritious food in time. Patients with this syndrome are typically characterized by low body weight with respect to age and height as compared to the unaffected individuals. As a result, various systems in the body are compromised. The persons suffer from fear of becoming overweight, but it can result in development of serious life-threatening conditions in the long term. Person A is suspected to have long-term effects of the current eating issue.

Anorexia nervosa is a psychological eating disorder typically characterized by low body weight with respect to age and height of the affected individuals. These individuals have fear of becoming overweight which adversely affects their eating habits and patterns and can result in development of serious life-threatening conditions.

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What are Bruces options at this point? Bruce and his parents moved to a semi-tropical region of the United States when he was about 3 years old. He loved to be outside year-round and swim, surf, snorkel, and play baseball. Bruce was fair-skinned, and in his childhood years, was sunburned quite often. In his teen years, he began using sunscreens, and although he never tanned very much, he did not have the painful sunburns of his younger years. After graduation from the local community college, Bruce wanted an outdoor job and was hired at a dive shop. He took people out to one of the local reefs to snorkel and scuba dive. He didnt give a second thought to sun exposure because he used sunscreen. His employer did not provide health insurance, so Bruce did not go for annual checkups, and tried to stay in good health. In his late 20s, Bruce was injured trying to keep a tourist from getting caught between the dive boat and the dock. He went to an internist, who treated his injury and told Bruce he was going to give him a complete physical exam. During the exam, the internist noticed a discolored patch of skin on Bruces back. She told him that she suspected Bruce had skin cancer and referred him to a dermatologist, who biopsied the patch. At a follow-up visit, Bruce was told that he had melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer. Further testing revealed that the melanoma had spread to his liver and his lungs. The dermatologist explained that treatment options at this stage are limited. The drugs available for chemotherapy have only temporary effects, and surgery is not effective for melanoma at this stage. The dermatologist recommended that Bruce consider entering a clinical trial that was testing a DNA vaccine for melanoma treatment. These vaccines deliver DNA encoding a gene expressed by the cancer cells to the immune system. This primes the immune system to respond by producing large quantities of antibodies that destroy melanoma cells wherever they occur in the body. A clinical trial using one such DNA vaccine was being conducted at a nearby medical center, and Bruce decided to participate. At the study clinic, Bruce learned that he would be in a Phase Ill trial, comparing the DNA vaccine against the standard treatment, which is chemotherapy, and that he would be randomly assigned to receive either the DNA vaccine or the chemotherapy. He was disappointed to learn this. He thought he would be receiving the DNA vaccine.

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