Disease

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• malaria
  6 October 2003

  malarial infections
  Definition: Malaria, caused by the intracellular parasite Plasmodium, is a worldwide infection that affects 300 million and kills 1 million people each year.
  Images
  man recently returned from Africa. Liver failure 2 to Malaria. hepatic malaria
  https://twitter.com/drkalmazrouei/status/817652485946912769
  According to the World Health Organization, 90% of deaths from malaria occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria is the leading cause of death in children younger (...)

• chondrocalcinosis
  16 October 2003

  Chondrocalcinosis (CC) is a common cause of joint pain and arthritis that is caused by the deposition of calcium-containing crystals within articular cartilage. Although most cases are sporadic, rare familial forms have been linked to human chromosomes 8 (CCAL1) or 5p (CCAL2).
  Etiology
  familial autosomal dominant calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate chondrocalcinosis ch. 8 (Locus CCAL1) 5p (Locus CCAL2): mutation in the transmembrane protein ANKH encoding a putative transmembrane inorganic (...)

• CHILD syndrome
  12 December 2006

  CHILD syndrome associates congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform nevus and limb defects (MIM.308050). It is an X-linked dominant trait with lethality for male embryos.
  A symmetric distribution of this nevus can exceptionally be seen in patients with CHILD syndrome.
  The disorder is caused by mutations in NSDHL (MIM.300275), a gene playing an important role in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway.
  CHILD syndrome is due to loss of function of an enzyme involved in cholesterol (...)

• systemic sclerosis
  28 November 2009

  scleroderma

• thanatophoric dysplasia
  5 July 2005

  thanatophoric dwarfism, thanatophoric dysplasias

• North American Indian childhood cirrhosis
  9 October 2008

  North American Indian childhood cirrhosis (NAIC) have been described an isolated nonsyndromic form of cholestasis in Ojibway-Cree children from First Nations communities in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec, Canada.
  The disease typically presents, in a child who is otherwise well, with transient neonatal jaundice that progresses to biliary cirrhosis requiring hepatic transplantation in childhood or early adulthood.
  The biochemical and histopathologic features of the disease (...)

• autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type I
  19 June 2004

  APECED

• urea cycle diseases
  19 April 2004

  urea-cycle disorders, urea cycle disorder, disorders of the urea cycle, anomalies of urea cycle

• syphilis
  18 October 2005

  Definition: Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum is the microaerophilic spirochete that causes syphilis, a chronic venereal disease with multiple clinical presentations.
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  Primary syphilis - Chancre
  https://twitter.com/JHW806/status/733298742502129666
  Secondary syphilis: psoriasiform pattern + lichenoid infiltrate with histiocytes great clue. Plasma cells ++
  https://twitter.com/JRamirezMD/status/782747788907991040
  Secondary syphilis: "condyloma" appearance. Dense plasma (...)

• neurofibromatosis type 1
  28 October 2003

  NF1, Von Recklinghausen’s disease, Von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis

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