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Disease Profiles Flashcards

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Coeliac Disease and Symptoms

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protein gluten is not properly broken down - autoimmune disorder
- affects the small intestine

Symptoms: diarrhoea, abdominal distention and malabsorption

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Wilsons Disease and Symptoms

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  • disorder of copper metabolism
  • it is not metabolised properly by the liver
  • copper is deposited into other organs
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Addison Disease

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  • autoimmune disease that causes destruction to 3 layers of adrenal cortex
  • destruction to corticoid hormones

Symptoms:
-fatigue, weakness, weightloss, nausea

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Gout

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  • disease where there are recurrent attacks of arthritis
  • urine deposits in joints
  • causes rise in urine uric acid levels
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Two types of primary gout

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  1. enzyme deficiency so uric acid is not broken down

2. deficiency is transport of uric acid via the renal tubules

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Secondary Gout

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when there is a decrease in excretion of uric acid and so more is present in the body

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Aneuploidy

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when there is an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell

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Stable Angina and Symptoms

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  • narrowing of the coronary arteries
  • plaque in arteries builds up and reduces blood flow to the heart
  • can then lead to ischaemia of the heart as not enough oxygen is delivered

Symptoms

  • central chest pain
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Acute Coronary Syndrome and Symptoms

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  • result of sudden unpredictable distribution in coronary blood flow
  • can cause ischaemia and necrosis
  • caused due to plaque which can rupture and cause thrombus

Symptoms:

  • chest pain that radiates to jaw, neck or arm
  • shortness of breath, sweating and vomiting
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Heart Failure

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  • the heart is unable to produce a cardiac output

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Hypertension

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  • blood pressure is increased

- greater risk of stroke and heart attack

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Pericarditis and Symptoms

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  • inflammation of the pericardium
  • may be due to infection/virus
  • autoimmune disease

Symptoms

  • sharp retro sternal pain
  • left sided pain
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Constrictive Pericarditis and Symptoms

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  • the thickening of the pericardium
  • can be caused by tuberculosis

Symptoms:

  • right heart failure
  • dyspnoea
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Rickets

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  • caused due to deficiency of vitamin D

- cartilage doesn’t get calcified and bone growth is disturbed

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Scurvy

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  • vitamin C deficiency
  • collagen fibres are impaired due to lack of collagen
  • can cause defects in forming capillaries
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Rheumatic Fever

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  • pain in joints
  • can lead to infection
  • affect mitral valve of the heart
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Rheumatoid Arthritis

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  • inflammatory disease of the synovial joints

- causes deformity of the fingers

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Cor Pulmonale

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  • hypertrophy causing failure to the right ventricle
  • it is a complication of COPD
  • raised JVP
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Mycoplasma Pneumoniae

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  • atypical pneumonia

- causes flu-like symptoms

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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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  • inflammation of the lung due to infection
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Pneumonia

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  • inflammatory condition of the lungs caused due to infection
  • fluid starts to leak into the alveoli
  • lungs can become consolidated
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Pulmonary Embolism

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  • clot in the lungs
  • shortness of breath
  • treatment is to give anticoagulation drugs
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Cystic Fibrosis

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  • overproduction of mucus by the goblet cells
  • causes mucus to fill in the lungs
  • can cause productive cough and finger clubbing
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Pleural Effusion

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-accumulation of excess fluid in the pleural cavity

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Cushing’s Syndrome

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  • having too much cortisol in your body
  • can be due to a tumour in the pituitary gland in the brain
  • tumour in adrenal gland

symptoms:

  • increased fat on chest + tummy
  • easy bruising skin
  • weakness in limbs
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chronic intracranial hypertension

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  • due to severe brain injury
  • headache
    temporary loss of vision
    feeling sick
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Malignant hypertension

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Ankylosing Spondylitis

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  • type of arthritis where there is long term inflammation in the joints of the spine

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