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Cerebral contusion Latin contusio cerebri a form of traumatic brain injury is a bruise of the brain tissue. Like bruises in other tissues cerebral contusion can be associated with multiple […]

Intraparenchymal hemorrhage (IPH) is one extension of intracerebral hemorrhage (the other is intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH)) with bleeding within brain parenchyma.Intraparenchymal hemorrhage accounts for approx. 8-13% of all strokes and results […]

Adie syndrome sometimes known as Holmes–Adie syndrome or Adie’s tonic pupil is a neurological disorder characterized by a tonically dilated pupil that reacts slowly to light but shows a more […]

A cerebral haemorrhage (also spelled hemorrhage) (aka intracranial hemorrhage cerebral hematoma intracranial hematoma) is a subtype of intracranial hemorrhage that occurs within the brain tissue itself. It is alternatively called […]

Pouchitis is inflammation of the ileal pouch (an artificial rectum surgically created out of ileal gut tissue in patients who have undergone a colectomy) which is created in the management […]

Keratomalacia is an eye disorder that results from Vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A is required to maintain specialized epithelia (such as in the cornea and conjunctiva).The precise mechanism is still […]

Focal seizures (also called partial seizures and localized seizures) are seizures which affect initially only one hemisphere of the brain. The brain is divided into two hemispheres each consisting of […]

Hypochondroplasia is a developmental disorder caused by an autosomal dominant genetic defect in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 gene (FGFR3) that results in a disproportionately short stature micromelia and […]

Cardiac asthma is a medical diagnosis of wheezing coughing or shortness of breath due to congestive heart failure. It is known as cardiac asthma because the symptoms mimic ordinary asthma.

Löffler’s syndrome or Loeffler’s syndrome is a disease in which eosinophils accumulate in the lung in response to a parasitic infection. It was first described in 1932 by Wilhelm Löffler […]