Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma, often referred to as pancreatic cancer, is a complex and serious disease. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a term used by doctors to describe a type of cancer that begins in the pancreas. Your pancreas is a small organ tucked behind your stomach that plays a vital role in digestion and blood sugar regulation. When cells … [Read more…]

Common Medical Abbreviations

Common Medical Abbreviations/Abbreviations are used very frequently in medicine. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. The advantages of brevity should be weighed against the possibilities of obfuscation (making the communication harder for others to understand) and ambiguity (having more than one possible interpretation). Certain medical abbreviations are avoided to prevent mistakes, according … [Read more…]

Cerebellar Dysfunction – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

Cerebellar dysfunction causes balance problems and gait disorders along with difficulties in coordination resulting in ataxia, uncoordinated movements, imbalance, speech problems(dysarthria), visual problems (nystagmus) and vertigo as a part of the vestibulocerebellar system. Cerebellar dysfunction causes balance problems and gait disorders along with difficulties in coordination resulting in ataxia, uncoordinated movements, imbalance, speech problems(dysarthria), visual problems (nystagmus), and vertigo … [Read more…]

Autoimmune Pancreatitis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a distinct, infrequent, progressive inflammatory, gastrointestinal disorders that lead to irreversible destruction of exocrine and endocrine pancreatic parenchyma caused by atrophy and/ or replacement with fibrotic tissue with a form of pancreatitis in children with a poorly understood pathophysiology with a systemic autoimmune condition that involves not only the pancreas but … [Read more…]

Autoimmune Oophoritis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

Autoimmune oophoritis is an uncommon, non-neoplastic, autoimmune inflammation of ovaries, a chronic process in which the affected organ is destroyed by massive cellular infiltration of foamy histiocytes admixed with multinucleated giant cells, plasma cells, fibroblasts, neutrophils, and foci of necrosis resulting in their destruction, atrophy, and fibrosis with a loss of fertility and ovary hormonal … [Read more…]

Idiopathic Myocarditis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

Idiopathic Myocarditis /Inflammatory cardiomyopathy (ICM) is defined as inflammation of the heart muscle associated with impaired function of the myocardium, which has most often the morphology of dilated cardiomyopathy. Inflammation of the heart muscle itself, that is, myocarditis may have many infectious (viral, bacterial, and protozoal infections) and noninfectious causes (e.g., myocarditis accompanying autoimmune disease … [Read more…]

Chronic Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy – Symptoms, Treatment

Chronic Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy/Inflammatory cardiomyopathy (ICM) is defined as inflammation of the heart muscle associated with impaired function of the myocardium, which has most often the morphology of dilated cardiomyopathy. Inflammation of the heart muscle itself, that is, myocarditis may have many infectious (viral, bacterial, and protozoal infections) and noninfectious causes (e.g., myocarditis accompanying autoimmune disease … [Read more…]