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Discussion Post Week Six NURS-6531, N-8 As an advanced practice nurse (APN), it is common to see people with gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. For the purpose of this discussion, I will evaluate the case study #2 and give a differential diagnosis with an explanation. I will discuss how the physical examination and patient history plays a role in the diagnosis and provide examples of treatments based on the diagnosis. Case Study Two Case study number two is a 40-year-old female with a chief complaint

is also considered as DMARDs and are monoclonal antibodies are as follows methotexane, hydroxychloroquine, sulfasalazine, leflunomide. TNF-alpha inhibitors (certolizumab), infliximab and (etanercept), abatacept and anakinra.Rituximab and toclizumab The practitioners mostly used methotrexate to diagnose the infected patients with other frequently used agents including sulfasalazine and leflunomide.The agents that are less commonly used by practitioners are sodium aurothiomalate (gold) and cyclosporine

The patient is a 72 year old female. She has been experiencing progressively worse pain and stiffness in her joints. She is reports that she is having decreased range of motion, redness, and swelling in her joints. She is reports symptoms occur in the same joints on both sides of her body. She is also reporting the symptoms are worse when she first wakes up in the morning. The symptoms she has given are most likely Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid Arthritis symptoms are joint stiffness, joint

We present a 35 year old man, former intravenous drug users, with chronic HCV infection two years back, who was hospitalized at the Neurology Care Unit, Clinic of Neurology, Clinical Center in Kragujevac, Serbia in March 2015. The main complaints were headache, difficulty speaking, weakness of the left side of the body, adynamia and fever. The weakness of the left side of the body began suddenly in the night before the admission. The patient occasionally had increased body temperature 3 months before

Lupus Case Study Overview There are several types of lupus, but the most common and severe type is called Systematic Lupus Erythematosus or SLE. This form of lupus is an autoimmune disease that causes a chronic inflammation that can affect many major organs in the body. Common areas of the body that are affected are the skin, joints, kidneys, lungs, heart, and the nervous system. The immune system is the part of the body that fights off viruses, bacteria, and germs, and other foreign substances

TERMINOLOGY CLINICAL CLARIFICATION • The most common type of benign primary cardiac tumor, which can cause valvular or inflow-outflow tract obstruction and thromboembolism; symptoms appear when the tumor fragments and causes systemic emboli or when it interferes with cardiac valvular function and causes pulmonary congestion 1 • Most atrial myxomas arise from the atrial septum, but some originate in the posterior wall, anterior wall or the appendages 1 CLASSIFICATION • By location 3, 1, 2 ○ Left

movement of the joint or immovable joints also known as ankylosis. Skin may be reddened but does not apply to everyone who has RA (Rosdahl, 2012). Diagnostics to help determine this disorder would first be getting an x-ray done, a (ESR) erythrocyte sedimentation rate can be done to determine if there is any inflammation and in this case there would be an increase in the (ESR), also a (RF) rheumatoid factor is performed, this is a blood test to determine how much RF antibody is in the blood which is

Our aim was to describe the demographic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of Takayasu’s arteritis the in northeast of Iran. Introduction: Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown etiology. TA affects adolescent girls and young women. It has a worldwide distribution, with the greatest prevalence in Asians 1-2. A generalized inflammatory syndrome with fever, night sweats, malaise, anorexia, weight loss, and diffuse myalgia often dominates initial manifestations of TA. These

A woman comes into the hospital complaining of extreme fatigue that does not go away with rest, she has a fever over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and she has some skin sores and rashes, almost in a butterfly-shaped pattern across her cheeks and nose. After blood and urine tests, the signs and symptoms and physical examination findings leads to the diagnosis of lupus. Who gets Lupus? “The majority of people with Lupus are female, and most first develop signs and symptoms of the illness between the ages

The 4-year old girl presented with a three month history of a swelling on the external nose with no history of nasal bleeding, nasal obstruction, or constitutional symptoms of tuberculosis. The patient had a positive history of open tuberculosis contact with her grandmother who had pulmonary tuberculosis about a year prior to the presentation of the current complaints by the patient and it was reported that the grandmother was kept on a 6-months course of Anti-tuberculous chemotherapy and was cured