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    Hyperthermia, also known simply as overheating, is a condition in which an individual's body temperature is elevated beyond normal due to failed thermoregulation...
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    Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a type of severe reaction that occurs in response to particular medications used during general anesthesia, among those...
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    Hyperthermia therapy (or hyperthermia, or thermotherapy) is a type of medical treatment in which body tissue is exposed to temperatures above body temperature...
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    Fever (section Hyperthermia)
    of medication or vaccination, and cancer. It differs from hyperthermia, in that hyperthermia is an increase in body temperature over the temperature set...
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  • is raised, but the setpoint is not raised, then the result is hyperthermia. Hyperthermia occurs when the body produces or absorbs more heat than it can...
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    Forms of treatment include chemotherapy, surgery, photoradiation, and hyperthermia, amongst various others. When malignant cells form, symptoms do not typically...
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    produce similar symptoms such as neuroleptic malignant syndrome, malignant hyperthermia, anticholinergic toxicity, heat stroke, and meningitis should be ruled...
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  • stimulants, triptans) 5HT2A agonists, e.g. psilocybin or LSD Malignant hyperthermia The primary treatment strategy is to eliminate or discontinue the offensive...
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    also be mistaken for similarly presenting conditions such as malignant hyperthermia, serotonin syndrome, or withdrawal from illicit drugs such as alcohol...
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  • Prandial relates to a meal. Postprandial (from post prandium) means after eating a meal, while preprandial is before a meal. The term postprandial is used...
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    the primary drug used for the treatment and prevention of malignant hyperthermia, a rare, life-threatening disorder triggered by general anesthesia or...
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    as an active sympathetic system of vasodilation. In certain cases of hyperthermia, skin vasodilation has permitted blood flow rates of skin to reach volumes...
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    production, muscle pain, and rash. Serious side effects include malignant hyperthermia, hyperkalemia and allergic reactions. It is not recommended in people...
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    that work only where they are applied), such as radiation, surgery, and hyperthermia. Traditional chemotherapeutic agents are cytotoxic by means of interfering...
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  • neoplasms (cancer and tumors), warts, and infected tissues; this is called hyperthermia treatment. In surgery diathermy is used to cauterize blood vessels to...
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  • The International Journal of Hyperthermia and Thermal Therapies is a peer-reviewed medical journal and the official journal of the Society for Thermal...
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    Heat stroke (category Deaths from hyperthermia)
    are fatal even with treatment. Heat stroke generally presents with a hyperthermia of greater than 40.6 °C (105.1 °F) in combination with disorientation...
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    Malignant hyperthermia and malignant catatonia share features of autonomic instability, hyperthermia, and rigidity. However, malignant hyperthermia is a hereditary...
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    Fan death is a misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics...
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  • not absorbed significantly in homogenous muscle. Heat therapy using hyperthermia has been used to treat cancer in combination with ionizing radiation...
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    Depression of the thermoregulatory mechanism resulting in hypothermia/hyperthermia Rare side effects include: Seizures Because of potential for more severe...
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    in which case anesthesia is necessary. Bradycardia, hypotension, and hyperthermia also require management/attention, before, during and after surgery....
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    Canyoning (canyoneering in the United States, kloofing in South Africa) is a sport that combines several outdoor sports like rock climbing, hiking, swimming...
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    and θέρμη (thérmē), meaning "heat". The opposite of hypothermia is hyperthermia, an increased body temperature due to failed thermoregulation. Hypothermia...
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  • accuracy of hyperthermia cancer treatment and cancer imaging. Multiple studies have shown that magnetic nanorings improves magnetic hyperthermia cancer treatment...
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    PMID 27626044. Hyperthermia alone does not produce amphetamine-like neurotoxicity but AMPH and METH exposures that do not produce hyperthermia (≥40 °C) are...
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    a medical oncologist and biochemist. He performed the first regional hyperthermia in combination with chemotherapy in 1986. Issels studied human medicine...
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    is likely to be due to loss of integrity to the blood brain barrier. Hyperthermia can also lower cerebral blood flow, and raise brain temperature. Researchers...
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  • Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is the most frequent cause of FUO. Drug-induced hyperthermia, as the sole symptom of an adverse drug reaction, should always be considered...
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    Consequences Barotrauma Decompression sickness Drowning Hypothermia Hypoxia Hypercapnia Hyperthermia Non-freezing cold injury...
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