Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is a condition that occurs when the bundle of nerves below the end of the spinal cord known as the cauda equina is damaged...
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Alien hand syndrome (AHS) or Dr. Strangelove syndrome is a category of conditions in which a person experiences their limbs acting seemingly on their own...
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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling chronic illness. People with ME/CFS experience profound fatigue that does not...
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Activation syndrome is a form of stimulation (sometimes suicidal) or agitation that has been observed in association with some psychoactive drugs. A causative...
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Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome (WFS) is defined as adrenal gland failure due to bleeding into the adrenal glands, commonly caused by severe bacterial...
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Emergent BioSolutions Inc. is an American multinational specialty biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It develops vaccines...
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SARS (redirect from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS))
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain...
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Sleep apnea (redirect from Sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome)
understanding of the disease process. The term "Pickwickian syndrome" that is sometimes used for the syndrome was coined by the famous early 20th-century physician...
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An emergent virus (or emerging virus) is a virus that is either newly appeared, notably increasing in incidence/geographic range or has the potential to...
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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (redirect from Shulman-Upshaw syndrome)
smaller units. Less commonly TTP is inherited, known as Upshaw–Schulman syndrome, such that ADAMTS13 dysfunction is present from birth. Diagnosis is typically...
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most common cause of elevated intraocular pressure is orbital compartment syndrome (OCS) caused by trauma, retrobulbar hemorrhage, infections, tumors, or...
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Central sleep apnea (redirect from Central sleep apnoea syndrome)
Central sleep apnea (CSA) or central sleep apnea syndrome (CSAS) is a sleep-related disorder in which the effort to breathe is diminished or absent, typically...
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Tourette syndrome (abbreviated as Tourette's or TS) is an inherited neurodevelopmental disorder that begins in childhood or adolescence, characterized...
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utilize this understanding to better understand autism, ADHD, Tourette's syndrome, etc. Given the considerable overlap between these subspecialities, there...
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Dabie bandavirus (redirect from Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome virus)
2013). "Evolutionary and molecular analysis of the emergent severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus". Epidemics. 5 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.epidem...
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (redirect from Hyperkinetic syndrome)
hyperactivity disorder and restless legs syndrome in children]" [Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and restless legs syndrome in children]. Revista de Neurologia...
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Lipoprotein lipase deficiency (redirect from Buerger-Gruetz syndrome)
failure to thrive, and other symptoms and signs of the chylomicronemia syndrome. In women the use of estrogens or first pregnancy are also well known trigger...
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Neural crest (section Waardenburg syndrome)
conditions such as frontonasal dysplasia, Waardenburg–Shah syndrome, and DiGeorge syndrome. Defining the mechanisms of neural crest development may reveal...
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Controversies related to ME/CFS (redirect from Chronic fatigue syndrome controversy)
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is an illness with a history of controversy. Although it is classified as an organic disease...
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distinct phenomenon from antidepressant discontinuation syndrome, post-acute withdrawal syndrome, and major depressive disorder, and should be distinguished...
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Myasthenia gravis (redirect from Erb-Goldflam syndrome)
as Hoffman syndrome), Tubular aggregate myopathy (TAM), ischemia (such as intermittent claudication, popliteal artery entrapment syndrome, and chronic...
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Jane Jacobs (redirect from Moral syndrome)
"moral syndrome A", or commercial moral syndrome, and "moral syndrome B", or guardian moral syndrome. She claims that the commercial moral syndrome is applicable...
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efficacy measure was the change from baseline in the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) total score at week 5. The PANSS is a 30-item scale that...
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Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (redirect from Dutch Hunger Winter Syndrome)
The loss of genetic expression which results in Prader–Willi syndrome or Angelman syndrome has in some cases been found to be caused by epigenetic changes...
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persons with suspected cardiac chest pain or acute coronary syndrome, or other emergent diagnoses such as pneumothorax, pulmonary embolism, or aortic...
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Bowel resection (section Short bowel syndrome)
may be digestive and metabolic challenges afterward, such as short bowel syndrome. Types of enterectomy are named according to the relevant bowel segment:...
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Concussion (redirect from Mild concussion syndrome)
longer or persisting concussion symptoms, also known as post concussion syndrome or persisting symptoms after concussion, which is defined as concussion...
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Alien abduction (redirect from Post-abduction syndrome)
Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they believe...
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appendicitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, pulmonary embolism, acute coronary syndrome, costochondritis, amongst others In 1872, Anders Daae and Christian Horrebow...
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(December 2011). "Compulsive fantasy: Proposed evidence of an under-reported syndrome through a systematic study of 90 self-identified non-normative fantasizers"...
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