List of articles in "Disease" category - Page 257

Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD) is a short-term decline in cognitive function (especially in memory and executive functions) that may last from a few days to a few weeks after surgery. […]

Emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) is a broad category which is used commonly in educational settings to group a range of more specific perceived difficulties of children and adolescents. Both […]

Adenoid hypertrophy (or enlarged adenoids) is the unusual growth (hypertrophy) of the adenoid tonsil first described by the Danish physician Wilhelm Meyer (1824-1895) in Copenhagen in 1868. He described that […]

A dislocated shoulder occurs when the humerus separates from the scapula at the glenohumeral joint. The shoulder joint has the greatest range of motion of any joint in the body […]

Fournier gangrene is a type of necrotizing infection or gangrene usually affecting the perineum.It was first described by Baurienne in 1764 and is named after a French venereologist Jean Alfred […]

Hypolipoproteinemia is defined as a lack of lipoprotein in the blood due to genetic or other diseases such as malnutrition and malabsorption.

Myocardial rupture (or heart rupture) is a laceration or tearing of the walls of the ventricles or atria of the heart of the interatrial or interventricular septum of the papillary […]

A Choroid plexus papilloma (CPP) is a rare slow-growing histologically benign intracranial neoplasm or tumor that is commonly located in the ventricular system of the choroid plexus. It leads to […]

X-linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) is a rare X-linked non-progressive retinal disorder. It has two forms complete also known as type-1 (CSNB1) and incomplete also known as type-2 (CSNB2) […]

Susac’s syndrome (Retinocochleocerebral Vasculopathy) is a microangiopathy characterized by encephalopathy branch retinal artery occlusions and hearing loss. The cause is unknown but the current thinking is that antibodies are produced […]