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    Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs when your body’s immune system attacks your own tissues and organs. The inflammation caused by lupus can affect many body systems including the following: joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, heart and lungs. Lupus occurs more frequently in women than in men. There are four different types of Lupus that exist. They are Systemic lupus erythematosus, Discoid lupus erythematosus, Drug-induced erythematosus, and Neonatal lupus. The most common and

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    persists over time. The heart is maintaining less oxygen, which will lead to an MI due to death of the myocardial cells. Patient will start to have angina because of this. Tachycardia is noted in many diseases and disorder like: fever endocarditis, anemia, HTN, pericarditis, abnormal heart impulses, anxiety, older age, sleep apnea, COPD, electrolyte imbalances, and many more. Tachycardia can be an

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    Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS), Type 1A Disease Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS) is a heritable genetic disease, marked by mis-regulated lymphoproliferation, due to an inoperative FAS/FASL apoptotic pathway in lymphocytes (Sneller et al.1992). An immune response generates large amounts lymphocytes, to contend with pathogen insults, and the subsequent dispatch of the pathogen. The immune response then requires suppression of the activated lymphocytes, terminating the

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    DiGeorge Syndrome 1 . What are the cellular/molecular mechanisms that underlie this disease? At a molecular level, it is a disease resulting from a sequence microdeletion on chromosome 22.1,4 Its current preferred name is 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.2 It is characterized as loss of about 30-40 genes, with some individuals having shorter deletions in the same region.1 One gene loss TBX1, attributes to heart defects, cleft palate, the distinctive facial feature of the disease, hearing loss and low

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    The Alpha Chains

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    enzyme release the protein, the red blood is destroyed and hemoglobin can release oxygen into the bloodstream. With Alpha Thalassemia, the low functioning numbers of hemoglobin are not enough to provide stable oxygen levels. If the levels are too low anemia is developed and blood transfusions are given to provide health red blood cells and hemoglobin proteins that can have alpha chains. The influx of new hemoglobin proteins allows for iron to have heme molecules that are in the alpha chains to bind.

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    WRITING INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES Kathy V. Waller, PhD, CLS(NCA) NAACLS Board of Directors Educators have used instructional, or behavioral, objectives for at least four decades. Robert Mager’s little text, Preparing Instructional Objectives, first printed in 1962, assisted many instructors in formulating and writing objectives. Since then, the use of objectives has become commonplace in education. The National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) also affirms the value

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    Genetic Mutation

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    Instead there is an abnormal type of hemoglobin S that is inherited as an autosomal inherited trait. This disease produces chronic anemia, which may become life threatening when hemolytic crises (the breakdown of redblood cells) or aplastic crises (bone marrow fails to produce blood cells) occur. The incidence of this disorder is 1/400 African Americans and 8/100,000 people. The manifestations of this disease

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    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

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    Ethnicity/race – Incidence is high among ethnic minority groups in Western Europe 10, 9 – Incidence is significantly higher in African Americans 11 ○ Other risk factors/associations – Birth complications 12 □ Prenatal exposure to influenza □ Hemolytic anemia □ Severe malnutrition □ Preeclampsia □ Fetal distress –

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    Most pet owners today are finding the whole issue of pet vaccines more and more confusing. Your local conventional veterinarian is telling you that "you should, as a responsible pet owner, follow my advice - vaccinate your dog and cat every year" with annual boosters. And at the same time you've read the horrible stories about pets who develop cancer right at the site of a vaccine injection, and many other stories about adverse reactions to vaccines in both cats and dogs. So... are we vaccinating

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