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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Human body temperature (section Hyperthermia)
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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Malignancy (section Hyperthermia)
Forms of treatment include chemotherapy, surgery, photoradiation, and hyperthermia, amongst various others. When malignant cells form, symptoms do not typically...
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Serotonin syndrome (section Hyperthermia)
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 (redirect from Postprandial hyperthermia)
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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Suxamethonium chloride (section Malignant hyperthermia)
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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Chemotherapy (section Hyperthermia therapy)
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 (section Hyperthermia (heat stress))
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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Heat therapy (redirect from Hyperthermia, induced)
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 (section Hypothermia and hyperthermia)
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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Exercise physiology (section Hyperthermia)
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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Fever of unknown origin (section Habitual hyperthermia)
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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