Clinical syndromes

Articles

• Shock
  7 December 2005

  cardiovascular collapse

• hypoglycemic syndromes
  28 May 2003
• immune reconstitution syndrome
  25 October 2007

  immune restoration disease, IRD, IRS, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, immune restoration inflammatory syndrome, IRIS
  Definition: Host immunity is essential in facilitating the eradication of infection. However, immunological recovery and an imbalance characterised by either suboptimum or excessive expression of immune responses can also be harmful to the host.
  Inflammatory responses triggered by rapid resolution of immunosuppression can lead to a series of localised and (...)

• megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome
  19 March 2007

  megacystis-microcolon syndrome, MMIH syndrome, MMIHS

• sudden infant death syndrome
  6 April 2004

  SIDS

• pulmonary hypertension
  15 January 2006

  pulmonary hypertensive diseases, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAHT)
  Clinical Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension
  Primary pulmonary hypertension
  Category 1: PAH
  idiopathic primary pulmonary hypertension (IPPH)
  Familial
  Pulmonary hypertension associated with:
  Collagen vascular disease
  Congenital systemic-to-pulmonary shunts
  Portal hypertension
  Drugs/toxins
  HIV infection
  Other (Gaucher’s, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, hemoglobinopathies, splenectomy) (...)

• sepsis
  15 April 2005

  Definition: Sepsis is a severe bacterial infections with systemic consequences.
  Synopsis
  septic shock
  septic embols
  Physiopathology
  In sepsis, the large amounts of organisms and LPS in the blood stimulate the production of enormous quantities of several cytokines, notably TNF and IL-1. As a result, circulating levels of these cytokines increase and the form of the host response changes. High levels of TNF cause disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
  Thrombosis results from (...)

• neonatal hypertension
  15 January 2006

  Associations (Exemples)
  congenital neuroblastoma (#2530503#)

• asphyxia
  19 July 2003
• stroke
  15 April 2005

  WKP
  Definition: An ischemic stroke is a cerebrovascular accident that results from occlusion of cerebral arteries owing to atherosclerosis and leading to a neurological deficit or death.
  Associations
  diseases of the connective tissue
  MELAS syndrome
  pregnancy-associated stroke (PAS)
  References
  van der Worp HB, van Gijn J. Clinical practice. Acute ischemic stroke. N Engl J Med. 2007 Aug 9;357(6):572-9. PMID: #17687132#
  Gulcher JR, Gretarsdottir S, Helgadottir A, Stefansson (...)

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