Friday 28 February 2014

Tyrosinemia Type I

Tyrosinemia

It is a hereditary illness categorized by high blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine, a structure block of most proteins. Tyrosinemia is triggered by the lack (deficiency) of one of the enzymes compulsory for the multi step procedure that breaks down tyrosine.

Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome

Twin to twin transfusion syndrome

It is a sickness of the placenta (or afterbirth) that disturbs matching twin pregnancies. TTTS distresses in distinguishable twins (or higher multiple gestations), who share a mutual monochromic placenta. The communal placenta covers abnormal blood vessels, which attach the umbilical cords and flows of the twins.

Turner Syndrome

Turner syndrome
It is a chromosomal disorder that distresses growth in females. The most mutual feature of Turner disease is short physique, which develops evident by about age 5. An initial loss of ovarian function (premature ovarian or ovarian hypo function failure) is also very common.

Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

Tuberous sclerosis complex
It is a hereditary complaint categorized by the development of frequent noncancerous (benign) tumors in many portions of the body. These cancers can occur in the brain,skin, kidneys, and other organs, in some cases chief to important health problems.

Tracheomalacia

Tracheomalacia






Toxic Shock Syndrome

Toxic shock syndrome

It is an infrequent, life-threatening difficulty of convinced types of bacteriological contagions. Often toxic shock disease outcomes from toxins formed by Staphylococcus aurous (staph) microbes, but the disorder may also be affected by toxins created by group streptococcus (strep) bacteria.

Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

Toxic epidermal necrolysis

It is an infrequent, occasionally life-threatening if properly cured, immunological illness of the skin. It is considered by sores that blend into one another to cover a large portion of the body (30% and more), and wide flaking or sloughing off of skin (denudation and exfoliation).

Tourette Syndrome

Tourette syndrome (TS)
It is a neurological illness where an individual has both motorized and choral tics. A trouble in the stability in neurotransmitters, substances in the brain that convey nerve signs from cell to cell, may play a role in Tourette syndrome.

Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome


Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
It defines sporadic orbital pain related with paralysis of one or more of the third, fourth and/or sixth cranial nerves which typically resolve instinctively but can deteriorate and dispatch.
Symptoms
The patient may criticize of double vision poorer at distance, annoyances, faintness, blurred vision, nausea, neck stiffness, photophobia and a boring pain may be related with the headache.
Diagnosis

Thursday 27 February 2014

Thymus Cancer

Thymus cancers
Thymus cancers are rare. The thymus is a minor organ situated just behindhand the breast bone (sternum) in the obverse part of the chest.
Symptoms
Dumpiness of breath, troublein swallowing, Chest pain, a persistent cough hoarseness of the voice, swelling of the neck due to the tumor pressing on blood vessels in the chest - this is called superior vena cava obstruction (SVCO).

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
It is a blood illness that causes blood clots to form in small blood vessels around the body. This indicates to a low platelet count (thrombocytopenia).
Symptoms
Hemorrhage into the skin or saliva membranes Purplish acnes in the skin shaped by small bleeding vessels near the external -surface of the skin (purpura) Confusion, speech variations Easy fatigue.

Essential Thrombocythemia

Essential thrombocythaemia
It also recognized as (essential thrombocytosis, essential thrombocythemia, and primary thrombocytosis) is anoccasional chronic blood disorder characterized by the overproduction of platelets by megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.
Symptoms
Most individuals with ET are asymptomatic (that is, without symptoms) at the time of diagnosis, as the condition is usually discovered upon routine blood work.
Diagnosis

Tetralogy of Fallot

Tetralogy of Fallot
It is an inherited heart fault which is characteristically unspoken to include four anatomical abnormalities of the heart. It is the most mutual cyanotic heart defect, and the greatest common cause of blue baby syndrome.
Symptoms
The main symptom is low blood oxygen fullness with or deprived of cyanosis from birth or emergent in the first year of life. If the baby is not cyanotic then it is occasionally denoted to as a "pink test."
Diagnosis

Tay-Sachs Disease

Tay–Sachs
It causes a liberalworsening of nerve cells and of mental and physical aptitudes that instigates around six months of age and frequently results in death by the age of four.
Symptoms
Tay–Sachs disease is characteristically first observed in infants around 6 months old showing an unusually strong reply to abrupt noises or other incentive, known as the startle retort.
Diagnose

Wednesday 26 February 2014

Tardive Dyskinesia

Tardive dyskinesia
It is a difficult-to-treat and often irredeemable procedure of dyskinesia, a disorder subsequent in instinctive, boring body movements. In this form of dyskinesia, the instinctive actions are tardive, meaning they have a sluggish or late onset.
Symptoms
Respiratory indiscretion, such as grunting and trouble breathing, is additional symptom related with tardive dyskinesia, although studies have shown that the occurrence rate is comparatively low.

Takayasu Arteritis

Takayasu's disease
It is also known as aortic arch syndrome, nonspecific aortoarteritis and the pulse less disease a form of large vessel granulomatous vasculitis with enormous intimal fibrosis and vascular contraction, moving often young or middle-aged women of Asian descent.
Symptoms
Some patients grow an initial "inflammatory phase" considered by universal disease with symptoms of weight loss, malaise, fever, night sweats, arthralgia, fatigue and syncope.
Diagnosis
It is resulting from BVAS; ITAS is deeplybiased on cardiovascular features and understated to change in disease location. Takayasu`s is a very firm and infrequent to treat condition.
Treatment

The countless mainstreams of patients with Takayasu’s arteritis reply to steroids such as prednisone.








Syringomyelia

Syringomyelia
It is a general term mentioning to a complaint in which a cyst or cavity forms inside the spinal cord. This cyst, named a syrinx, can increase and grow over time, abolishing the spinal cord.
Symptoms
It affects a wide diversity of neuropathic indications due to injury of the spinal cord. Patients may experience simple chronic pain, irregularspirits and damage of sensation chiefly in the hands.

Sydenham Chorea

Sydenham's chorea
It is also recognized as chorea minor is a disorder characterized by rapid, clumsy jerking movements primarily affecting the hands, face and feet.
Symptoms
The symptoms comprise behavior change, gait disturbance, dysarthria, loss of fine and gross motor control with subsequent worsening of headache, handwriting, slowed cognition, facial grimacing, fidgetiness and hypotonic.

Sweet's Disease

Sweet’s disease
Sweet's syndrome, it is also called as acute febrile neutrophil dermatitis, is an infrequent skin disorder noticeable by fever and painful skin lesions that seem mainly on your face, arms, neck and back.
Symptoms
Sweet's syndrome is noticeable by a sudden outbreak of small red bumps on your neck, arms, face or back, frequently after a fever or upper respiratory contagion.

Tuesday 25 February 2014

Sturge-Weber Syndrome

Sturge–Weber syndrome
Sometimes mentioned to as encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis, is an infrequent inherited neurological and skin complaint.
Symptoms
Sturge–Weber syndrome is typically established at birth by a port-wine tint on the brow and upper eyelid of one side of the face.

Stiff Person Syndrome

Stiff person syndrome
It is an infrequent neurologic illness of indistinct etiology considered by generous difficulty and inflexibility. The arduousness chiefly touches the truncal strengths and is overlaid by spasms, subsequent in postural deformities.
Symptoms
Patients with stiff person syndrome (SPS) hurtliberal feel stiffness in their truncal muscles, which become unbending and rigid.
Diagnosis

Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy

Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy
It also identified as Kennedy disease, is a complaint of particular nerve cells that switch muscle movement (motor neurons). These nerve cells create in the spinal cord and the part of the brain that is linked to the spinal cord (the brain stem).

Spasmodic Dysphonia

Spasmodic dysphonia
It is also called as laryngeal dystonia, is a speech disorder considered by involuntary movements or shudders of one or more muscles of the larynx vocal folds or voice box during speech.
Symptoms
It may co-occur with other neurological drive illnesses such as blepharospasm (extreme eye blinking and instinctive forced eye closure), tardive dyskinesia (instinctive and tedious movement of muscles of the body, face, tongue, arms and legs), or mandibulardystonia.

Smallpox Disease

Smallpox disease
It is a communicable virus caused by either of two virus variants, Areola minor and Areola major.
Symptoms
The gestation period among reduction and the first clear signs of the illness is around 12 days.
Diagnosis

Spinal muscular atrophy

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

It is an autosomal receding illness caused by a hereditary fault in the SMN1 genetic factor, which encrypts SMN, a protein extensively articulated in all eukaryotic cells.

Symptoms
Trouble achieving developmental milestones, difficulty standing /sitting /walking, In infants- adopting of a frog-leg position when sitting (hips abducted and knees flexed), Loss of forte of the respiratory muscles- weak cry, weak cough(infants), buildup of emissions in the throat or lungs, breathing suffering.

Sunday 23 February 2014

Savant Syndrome

Savant Syndrome










Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Soft tissue sarcomas

It is the malignant swellings that create in the soft tissues of your body. Soft tissues attach, surround and support other body structures.

Symptoms
An obvious swelling or lump, Pain, if it presses on musclesornerves, A obstruction in the intestines or stomach or stomach bleeding if the tumor is situated in the tummy or gastric tract.

Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis