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Gall Stone Disease – Cholelithiasis
Cholelithiasis; Gallbladder attack; Biliary colic; Gallstone attack; Biliary calculus: gallstones chenodeoxycholic acids (CDCA); Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA, ursodiol); Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) – gallstones Many people with gallstones do not have any symptoms. These are often found during a routine x-ray, abdominal surgery, or other medical procedure. However, if a large stone blocks a tube or…
Hearing Loss. Save
Hearing is a gift.hearing is the ability to be able to listen to the external sounds. Hearing loss or hearing impairment is the reduced ability to listen to external sounds. Hearing loss sets in particularly as the age of the person increases. The hearing loss here is the hearing loss due to aging. But not…
Oncotype Dx – Predicts how likely6 cancer comes back or not.
The test gives a score, known as a Recurrence Score, from 0 to 100.
The higher the score, the more likely breast cancer is to come back and the more likely you are to benefit from having chemotherapy as well as hormone therapy.
Your specialist will use the score, along with other information about your breast cancer, to help decide whether chemotherapy would benefit you.5
Jaundice – Pathophysiology
Jaundice aundice results from high levels of bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is the normal breakdown product from the catabolism of haem, and thus is formed from the destruction of red blood cells. Under normal circumstances, bilirubin undergoes conjugation within the liver, making it water-soluble. It is then excreted via the bile into the GI tract, the majority of which is egested in…
How do vaccines work?
Want to read more? Throughout history, humans have successfully developed vaccines for a number of life-threatening diseases, including meningitis, tetanus, measles and wild poliovirus. In the early 1900s, polio was a worldwide disease, paralysing hundreds of thousands of people every year. By 1950, two effective vaccines against the disease had been developed. But vaccination in some…