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Bartter syndrome is a rare inherited defect in the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle. It is characterized by low potassium levels (hypokalemia) increased blood pH (alkalosis) and […]

A major depressive episode is a period characterised by the symptoms of major depressive disorder: primarily severely depressed mood and a loss of interest or pleasure in everyday activities but […]

Ganglioneuroma is a rare and benign tumor of the autonomic nerve fibers arising from neural crest sympathogonia which are completely undifferentiated cells of the sympathetic nervous system. However ganglioneuromas themselves […]

Toxic oil syndrome or simply toxic syndrome (Spanish: síndrome del aceite tóxico or síndrome tóxico) is a musculoskeletal disease most famous for a 1981 outbreak in Spain which killed over […]

A fecaloma (pronounced /fiːkəˈloʊmə/ FEE-kə-LOH-mə) also called fecalith fecolith and coprolith i.e. a stone made of feces is a hardening of feces into lumps of varying size inside the colon […]

Pretibial myxedema (myxoedema (UK) also known as Graves Dermopathy thyroid dermopathy Jadassohn-Dösseker disease or Myxoedema tuberosum) is an infiltrative dermopathy resulting as a rare complication of Graves’ disease with an […]

Bannayan–Riley–Ruvalcaba syndrome (BRRS) is a rare overgrowth syndrome and hamartomatous disorder with occurrence of multiple subcutaneous lipomas macrocephaly and hemangiomas. The disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant form but […]

Zaspopathy also called ZASP-related myofibril myopathy is a novel autosomal dominant form of progressive muscular dystrophy first described in 2005. The disease encompasses multiple forms of both distal and proximal […]

Liddle’s syndrome also called Liddle syndrome and pseudoaldosteronism is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by early and frequently severe hypertension associated with low plasma renin activity metabolic alkalosis hypokalemia and […]

Foot drop is a gait abnormality in which the dropping of the forefoot happens due to weakness damage to the common fibular nerve or paralysis of the muscles in the […]