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Autoimmune disorders are conditions in which a person ' s immune system attacks the body ' s own cells, causing tissue destruction. Autoimmunity is accepted as the cause of a wide range of disorders, and it is suspected to be responsible for many more.
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An autoimmune disorder is a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. There are more than 80 different types of autoimmune disorders. See also: Immune response
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Detailed information on autoimmune diseases and pregnancy
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Autoimmune disorders are conditions in which a person's immune system attacks the body's own cells, causing tissue destruction. Autoimmunity is accepted as the cause of a wide range of disorders and suspected to be responsible for many more.
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Doctors divide autoimmune diseases in two categories: Those that attack a specific organ and those that target many organs.
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Diseases in which the immune system attacks the body ' s own healthy tissues, forming antibodies in an assault on mistakenly identified " foreign invaders. " Autoimmune disorders occur when the body ' s immune system loses its ability to recognize the differences between self and nonself tissues.
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Chemotherapy is the systemic (whole body) treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs. Purpose The main purpose of chemotherapy is to kill cancer cells.
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Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill bacteria, viruses, fungi, and cancer cells. Most commonly, the term is used to refer to cancer-killing drugs. This article focuses on cancer chemotherapy.
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Detailed information on chemotherapy and managing chemotherapy side effects in children
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Chemotherapy is treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs . Purpose The main purpose of chemotherapy is to kill cancer cells.
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Nail Care During ChemotherapyCaution:Call your doctor if your cuticles become red and painful or show other changes.Minor nail problems are common side effects of chemotherapy. These side effects occur because the treatment affects normal cells as...
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Chemotherapy: Common QuestionsYou may have questions about how chemotherapy could affect the things you take for granted in everyday life. Here are some answers to common questions, and some of the adjustments you may need to make.Will I Still Be ...
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Detailed information on chemotherapy for treatment of gynecological cancers
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Chemotherapy, sometimes referred to as " chemo, " is the treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs. Purpose The main purpose of chemotherapy is to kill cancer cells.
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Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with anti- cancer drugs . Purpose The purpose of chemotherapy is to kill cancer cells.
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Chemotherapy Side EffectsMost people who are told they need chemotherapy dread the anticipated side effects. However, side effects vary from person to person depending on the person's general health, the type of cancer, and the kind of chemotherap...
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Nutrition During ChemotherapyDuring chemotherapy, the energy provided by a healthy diet can help you rebuild normal cells. It can also help you keep up your strength and fight infection.
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Although exercise is an important for everyone, it's especially beneficial for those who have been diagnosed with cancer and are undergoing chemotherapy.
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Detailed information on chemotherapy and managing chemotherapy side effects in children
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Skin Care During ChemotherapyMinor skin problems are common side effects of chemotherapy. These side effects occur because the treatment affects normal cells as well as cancer cells.
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Understanding ChemotherapyThis is one section from the guide "Chemotherapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).What Is Chemotherapy?Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with drugs that...
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Expert-reviewed information summary about oral complications, such as mucositis and salivary gland dysfunction, that occur in cancer patients treated with chemotherapy or radiation therapy to the head and neck.
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What Can I Expect During Chemotherapy?This is one section from the guide "Chemotherapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).Some people with cancer want to know every detail about their co...
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Eating Well During ChemotherapyThis is one section from the guide "Chemotherapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).It is very important to eat well while you are getting chemotherapy. Ea...
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Paying for ChemotherapyThis is one section from the guide "Chemotherapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).The cost of chemotherapy varies with the kinds and doses of drugs used, how lon...
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Chemotherapy Glossary TermsThis is one section from the guide "Chemotherapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).Adjuvant chemotherapyAnticancer drugs or hormones given after surgery and/o...
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Coping With Side EffectsThis is one section from the guide "Chemotherapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).What Causes Side Effects?Because cancer cells may grow and divide more rapidly...
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Getting the Support You NeedThis is one section from the guide "Chemotherapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).Chemotherapy, like cancer, can bring major changes to a person's life. Whi...
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Chemotherapy: If You Are Considering ItQuestions for the doctor:Why do I need this treatment?What drugs will I be taking?
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Take Care of YourselfThis is one section from the guide "Chemotherapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).How can you take care of yourself during chemotherapy? You can eat the right food...
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Receiving IV ChemotherapyYou may have ashort-term IVthat is removed after each treatment. Or you may have acentral venous catheter.This is a thin tube that is inserted into a large vein with access to your central blood supply.
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I am undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and one of the side effects is a white, thick coating on my tongue. Can you suggest a remedy for this?
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Two studies show that chemotherapy and cancer drugs may have lingering effects on the brain after treatment concludes. Memory and attention are affected, but not permanently.
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Understanding ChemotherapyKnowing what chemotherapy does, and when and how it is given, may make you feel less anxious about starting treatment. Chemotherapy can be a single medication or a combination of medications.
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Smoke InhalationOther than burns, smoke inhalation is the greatest threat posed by fires. Smoke can burn delicate airways and deprive your body of oxygen.
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If you're not quite sure what's up with AIDS these days, don't feel alone. Misconceptions and falsehoods concerning AIDS and HIV abound.
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New drug treatments can delay the effects of AIDS and are helping patients live longer. But the reality is that no medicine can cure AIDS or the virus that causes it, HIV. Once inside the body, HIV destroys immune system cells, making it difficult to fight off illness.
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A person with HIV can look and feel perfectly healthy. But that person can give HIV to others as soon as he or she is infected with the virus.
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What's true and what's not when it comes to AIDS? Here's a look at some common myths surrounding HIV infection and AIDS.
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is the final, life-threatening stage of infection with any of the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1, its many subtypes, or HIV-2), which are transmitted from person to person sexually (including via anal, oral, and vaginal intercourse, both heterosexually and homosexually), through contact with blood (mainly via equipment used to inject illicit drugs and, rarely, via medical uses of blood), and perinatally (from mother to fetus or newborn during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, or after birth through breast-feeding). ORIGIN AND HISTORY HIV-1 and HIV-2 both appear to have been transmitted to humans from primates in Central and West Africa, probably to hunters or processors of carcasses of primates consumed as food (referred to as " bush meat " ).
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) by infecting helper T cells of the immune system. The most common serotype, HIV-1, is distributed worldwide, while HIV-2 is primarily confined to West Africa.
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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was identified in 1983 by the French scientist Luc Montagier and his staff at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Ever since that discovery, scientists have been searching for ways to treat those infected with HIV, and to produce a vaccine to prevent its spread.
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) during pregnancy
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Immunosuppressant drugs, also called anti-rejection drugs, are used to prevent the body from rejecting a transplanted organ. Purpose When an organ, such as a liver, a heart or a kidney, is transplanted from one person (the donor) into another (the recipient), the immune system of the recipient triggers the same response against the new organ it would have to any foreign material, setting off a chain of events that can damage the transplanted organ.
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Immunosuppressant drugs, which are also called anti-rejection drugs, are used to prevent the body from rejecting a transplanted organ. Purpose When an organ, such as a liver, heart or kidney, is transplanted from one person (the donor) into another (the recipient), the immune system of the recipient triggers the same response against the new organ that it would have against any foreign material, setting off a chain of events that can damage the transplanted organ.
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The following Clinical Topic Tour provides an overview of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and was adapted from materials published by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder. It may affect the skin, joints, kidneys, and other organs.
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Unlike AIDS, which weakens the immune system, lupus kicks it into overdrive. The result? The body targets healthy tissues and cells as invaders and tries to destroy them.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune disease with protean clinical manifestations that may affect any organs or system. shows the 1997 revised American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for the classification of SLE. The disease is characterized by flares, remissions and autoantibodies directed against several intracellular and cell-surface antigens.
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For most people, lupus is a mild disease that strikes just a few organs. For others, it can cause serious, even life-threatening problems.
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Lupus AlertYou feel tired and have a sun-sensitive rash. Or you suffer joint pain and swelling and have trouble taking a deep breath.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus is a multisystem, autoimmune, connective-tissue disorder with a broad range of clinical presentations. There is a peak age of onset in young women between their late teens and early 40s and women to men ratio of 9:1.
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Because most therapeutic interventions in patients with SLE are associated with significant undesirable side effects, the physician must first decide whether a patient needs treatment and, if so, whether conservative management is sufficient or aggressive immunosuppression is necessary. Figure 76-1 presents an algorithm for this decision making.
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Nearly all people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a positive (abnormal) ANA -- that is, the sensitivity of the ANA for SLE is quite high. That also means that it is very rare to have lupus with a negative (normal) ANA.
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My mother was diagnosed a few years ago with lupus (non-systemic). Can this turn into systemic lupus?
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Can having Lupus cause you to then get chronic liver disease? Are the two connected?
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An experimental stem-cell procedure using the patient's own cells has the potential to eliminate symptoms in lupus sufferers for several years, but the treatment is lengthy and difficult.
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Lupus, also known as lupus erythematosus, is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder that occurs mostly in women. Lupus produces widely varying symptoms, although joint pain is reported by most patients and skin lesions are common.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (also called lupus or SLE) is a disease where a person ' s immune system attacks and injures the body ' s own organs and tissues. Almost every system of the body can be affected by SLE.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (also called lupus or SLE) is a disease in which a person ' s immune system attacks and injures the body ' s own organs and tissues. Almost every system of the body can be affected.
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Is lupus progressive, or do all the symptoms just start appearing at once? The facial skin redness, fatigue and mouth ulcers have hit at various times. Should I see a doctor as symptoms appear, or can lupus be diagnosed while I am not having any of these problems?
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are caused by a group of infectious microorganisms that are transmitted mainly through sexual activity. These agents represent a costly, burdensome global public health problem.
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Detailed information on sexually transmitted diseases, including causes, diagnosis, and prevention
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Sexually transmitted disease (STD) is a term used to describe more than 20 different infections that are transmitted through exchange of semen, blood, and other body fluids; or by direct contact with the affected body areas of people with STDs. Sexually transmitted diseases are also called venereal diseases.
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Detailed information on sexually transmitted diseases, including causes, diagnosis, and prevention
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Detailed information on sexually transmitted diseases, including causes, diagnosis, and prevention
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Detailed information on sexually transmitted diseases, including causes, diagnosis, and prevention
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Detailed information on sexually transmitted diseases, including causes, diagnosis, and prevention
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Detailed information on sexually transmitted diseases, including causes, diagnosis, and prevention
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Your body usually tells you when you are in danger -- your heart races, you breathe hard, your palms sweat. But when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases, you may not have any warning signs.
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America is more overweight and out of shape than ever. The result? Soaring medical costs and lost productivity. The U.S. government is working to change that with "Healthy People 2010," its latest effort to show us that national health demands personal health. The drive includes 10 "leading health indicators," modeled after our leading economic indicators.
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are viral and bacterial infections passed from one person to another through sexual contact. Adolescence is a time of opportunities and risk when many health behaviors are established.
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Detailed information on sexually transmitted diseases, including causes, diagnosis, and prevention
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Your body usually tells you when you are in danger -- your heart races, you breathe hard, your palms sweat. But when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), you may not have any warning signs.
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Genital Warts (Condyloma)Note:Latex condoms may help protect against genital warts. But condoms don’t cover all the areas that can get infected.
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Chlamydia is the most frequently reported bacterial STD by far in the United States -- and it can cause serious complications and infections for both men and women if left untreated.
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Transplant surgery is the surgical removal of an organ(s), tissue, or blood products from a donor and surgically placing or infusing them into a recipient. Purpose Transplant surgery is a treatment option for diseases or conditions that have not improved with other medical treatments and have led to organ failure or injury.
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Safe sex means taking precautions during sex that can keep you from getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD), or from giving an STD to your partner. These diseases include genital herpes, genital warts, HIV, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, and others.
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Pneumonia in an immunocompromised host describes a lung infection that occurs in a person whose ability to fight infection is greatly reduced. See also: Hospital-acquired pneumonia; Mycoplasma pneumonia; Pneumonia - cytomegalovirus; Pneumonia; Viral pneumonia; Walking pneumonia.
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Discharge Instructions for Immunocompromised PatientsYou have either undergone a procedure or been diagnosed with an illness that has made you "immunocompromised." This means that your immune system is very weak, making it difficult to fight off i...
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