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Chief Complaint Memory problems. History Patient is a 79-year-old right-handed white female who presents with her daughter for evaluation of memory problems. She states that they started after surgery she had in June or July 2014. This was a right total hip replacement. According to the patient's daughter, when she came out of anesthesia, she was initially unresponsive, and over the course of a week, slowly improved to her baseline. She initially would give a blank stare and could not speak

procedure that may cause contract reaction and procedure-induced DVT CT or MRI Management: (3,9) Anticoagulant drugs are used to reduce and block the process of blood clotting. They differ from anti-platelet medications such as low-dose aspirin and clopidogrel. Aspirin: It is an anti-platelet medicine which reduces the risk of clots formation and thus reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes. It can be used in several conditions such as unstable angina, AMI, strokes, asthma, gastric ulceration

1.3 Etiology and risk factors: There are different heterogeneous phenotypes for asthma that vary in presentation, pathophysiology and etiology. The risk factors for each recognized phenotype of asthma include genetic, host, environmental factors and family history.[23] Factors that can contribute to asthma or airway hyperreactivity may include any of the following: 1- Environmental allergens: (e.g., house dust mites, animal allergens, especially cat and dog, cockroach allergens and fungi)

________________________ Student Exploration: Drug Dosage Vocabulary: controlled release, dosage, drug, overdose, target organ Prior Knowledge Question (Do this BEFORE using the Gizmo.) Suppose you take aspirin for a headache. What happens after you swallow the pill? The aspirin starts begins to dissolve by the enzymes and are soaked in while traveling down to the stomach. They then are distributed to the areas that need the pain relief. Gizmo Warm-up A drug is a substance that causes

Suzanna Kaysen, the author of the memoir “Girl, interrupted” found herself questioning the notion of normalcy after being admitted to a psychiatric ward due to a suicide attempt in 1967, Kaysen insists she was misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder. After reading Kaysen’s narrative, I concluded that the diagnose was indeed inadequate, although Kaysen exhibited symptoms of mental illness, she wasn’t suffering from borderline personality disorder, as she there was a lack of evidence to support

arthritis generally occurs in a symmetrical pattern, meaning that if it occurs in one hand or knee it will also happen on the other one. The disability that comes with the crippling aspect of Rheumatoid arthritis is preventable by exercise programs, and aspirin or other drugs. A joint may be repaired or replaced, and in extreme cases a gold compound injection can be used. Rheumatiod arthritis affects three times more women than men. It strikes people of all ages, though generally those of middle- age or

7. What is the role of colchicine in the treatment of pericarditis? Pericarditis is an inflammatory disease that occurs around the heart. A major cause of this inflammation is infection such as viruses, bacteria, anaerobes, and fungi. Other causes include myocardial infarction, trauma, medications, and autoimmune disorders.1,2 This disease occurs at primarily in twenty to fifty-year old males.3 Patients with immunocompromised diseases and AIDS are at higher risk for acute pericarditis.1 About 15

What is Blood in the Front of the Eye in Cats? Blood in the anterior chamber, or front chamber, of the cat 's eye is a condition known as hyphema. Hyphema isn 't a disease in and of itself but is rather a symptom of a systemic or ophthalmic disease. The condition can range from mild to severe, with mild cases presenting with a light pink color in the fluid in front of the eye. Severe hyphema typically presents with the entire chamber filled with blood, blinding the cat. Identifying the disease

In Biochemistry, Matthews 4th Edition the COX-2 is a bifunctional endoplasmic reticulum membrane enzyme with two activities in single heme-containing polypeptide chain. The first, a cyclooxygenase activity , introduces two molecules of O2 and gives PGG2. The cyclooxygenase reaction is one of the first steps in eicosanoid synthesis for prostaglandins. The second activity, a peroxidase, is a two electron reduction of the peroxide to give PGH2. PGH2 is a prostaglandin endoperoxide that serves as a

HEART ATTACKS Each Year 1.1 Million people in the United States have heart attacks and almost half of them die. It may be surprising that while many women believe breast cancer is most threatening to them, it is a fact that they are eight times more likely to die of a heart attack. Coronary Artery Disease which often leads to a heart attack is by far the leading cause of death of both men and women. WHAT IS A HEART ATTACK? Other Names for a heart attack include the name Myocardial Infarction