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Eisenmenger Syndrome


In 1897, Eisenmenger reported the case of a 32-year-old man who had showed exercise intolerance, cyanosis, heart failure, and hemoptysis prior to death. Autopsy showed a large ventricular septal defect (VSD) and overriding aorta. This was the first description of a link between a large congenital cardiac shunt defect and the development of pulmonary hypertension.

Eisenmenger syndrome occurs in patients with large congenital cardiac or surgically created extracardiac left-to-right shunts. These shunts initially cause increased pulmonary blood flow. Subsequently, usually before puberty, pulmonary vascular disease causes pulmonary hypertension, ultimately resulting in reversed or bidirectional shunt flow with variable degrees of cyanosis.


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Epidemic dropsy is a form of edema due to intoxication with Argemone mexicana (Mexican prickly poppy).

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Yellow nail syndrome


Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by yellow nails that lack a cuticle, grow slowly, and are loose or detached (onycholysis). Yellow nail syndrome is most commonly associated with lung disorders, and with lymphedema.





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Encephalopathy

Encephalopathy literally means disease of the brain. In some contexts it refers to permanent brain injury, and in others it is reversible. It can be due to direct injury to the brain, or illness remote from the brain. In medical jargon it can refer to a wide variety of brain disorders with very different etiologies, prognoses and implications. For example, prion diseases, all of which cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are nearly always fatal and have an infectious origin, but other encephalopathies are reversible and can be caused by nutritional deficiencies, toxins, and several other causes.

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Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome


The Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome. A new oculo-dermato-auditory syndrome.
Warburg M, Tommerup N, Vestermark S, Parving A, Weismann K, Russell B, Thomsen HK.

Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Gentofte, Denmark.

We have seen a Yemenite sister and brother with cutaneous hypomelanotic and pigmented spots and patches, microcornea, coloboma, severe hearing loss and normal karyotypes. Histopathological examinations of the skin showed absent melanocytes in the depigmented areas; in the normal and hyperpigmented skin there was abundant melanotic pigment. Similar patients have not been described previously, but there are corresponding mutations in mice and rats.

Ophthalmic Paediatr Genet. 1990 Sep;11(3):201-7.
PMID: 2280978 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]



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Ecthyma gangrenosum

Ecthyma gangrenosum is an infection of the skin typically caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is a round or oval 1- to 15-cm lesion with a halo of erythema and usually with a necrotic center representing where the organism has invaded blood vessels and produced hemorrhagic infarctions. These ulceritic lesions are single or multiple and heal with scar formation. It is a possible complication of sepsis from pseudamonal organisms or other gram negative bacteria.

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Myasthenia gravis
(literally "serious muscle-weakness"; from Greek μύς "muscle", ἀσθένεια "weakness", and Latin gravis "serious"; abbreviated MG) is a neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability. It is an autoimmune disorder, in which weakness is caused by circulating antibodies that block acetylcholine receptors at the post-synaptic neuromuscular junction,

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Schizoid personality
Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, and emotional coldness. SPD is reasonably rare compared with other personality disorders. Its prevalence is estimated at less than 1% of the general population.
DSM-IV-TR criteria

The DSM-IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines schizoid personality disorder as:

A. A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

1. neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family
2. almost always chooses solitary activities
3. has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
4. takes pleasure in few, if any, activities
5. lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
6. appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
7. shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity

B. Does not occur exclusively during the course of schizophrenia, a mood disorder with psychotic features, another psychotic disorder, or a pervasive developmental disorder and is not due to the direct physiological effects of a general medical condition.

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yatobyo

A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans

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ocular toxocariasis

Ocular toxocariasis is an uncommon disease that occurs primarily in young patients. It affects females and males with approximately equal frequency. Most patients report a history of recent exposure to puppies or kittens. The disease is unilateral in most cases, with mild-to-moderate intermediate or diffuse inflammation. Patients with OLM are older than those with VLM. They lack systemic symptoms, such as fever, cough, and abdominal pain, and do not have significant eosinophilia.

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