Heart disease is a common disease in people. Its a disease that affects the heart and the cardiovascular system. There are many types of Heart disease. Most often when people think of any kind of heart disease they usually think of the Coronary Artery Disease. That is the narrowing of arteries that ...

Cardiovascular diseases rank as America's number 1 killer. They claim the lives of 42.7 percent of the more than 2 million Americans who die each year. Cancer follows, killing 23.8 percent. All other causes of death account for 33.5 percent. Medical research continually seeks to reduce di...

Congenital heart disease (or CHD) is a range of heart disorders, of varying degrees of severity, which are present at birth. CHD affects about eight in every one thousand live babies that are born and is caused by factors operating early in pregnancy. These factors include viral infections (e.g. Rub...

Pathology Peripheral Vascular Disease PVD It is related to Arteriosclerosis Obliterans, defined as arteriosclerosis in which proliferation of the intima has caused complete obliteration of the lumen of the artery, is also known as atherosclerotic occlusive disease. Occlusive disease of the femo...

Stroke When a family member has a stroke, the family could also be highly affected. The person may have slurred speech, facial weakness, loss of bladder control, difficulty in breathing and swallowing, and paralysis or weakness, particularly on one side of the body. A stroke is also referre...

The Cardiovascular System-Blood Pressure and The ECG Blood pressure is the force of blood distending the arterial walls. Blood pressure is measured in the Brachial artery using a sphygmomanometer, the average resting bp in a normal person is 120/80. The higher number is the systolic blood pres...

Physiology Exam Directions: The following exam consists of various types of questions designed to test the critical reasoning skills of the examinee. Answers are found on the following page, with rationales. This is a Twenty question test, with an allotted time of 45 minutes to indulge one...

Psychosocial Assessment Mr. L. is a 69 year-old male with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), FAB-M1 normal cytogenetics diagnosed in May of 2001. He received chemotherapy (7+3: AraC/idarubican) at that time and achieved complete remission. He developed a relapse in the April of 2002. He deferred...

Late one afternoon, a lady was driving home in the rush hour traffic. The last thing she needed was a pounding headache. While she was stopped, she dug in her purse for some aspirin to relieve her headache. She chugged it down with the Pepsi sitting by the seat. Her only worry was to relieve h...

Is generalised Genetic Screening for Factor V Leiden Necessary? Genetic screening has no doubt have been the one of the most controversial issue in the branch of medicine. The new issue has recently triggered the on-going debate: the dilemma of whether the Government should allow the Geneti...

What is high blood pressure? High blood pressure means that your heart is working harder than normal to force blood into the arteries and through the circulatory system. For an adult a blood pressure reading greater that 140 over 90 is considered as high. Normally, the pumping of the heart creates ...

CIGARETTE SMOKING AND THE BODY Tobacco is consumed worldwide everyday by millions of people. Many people cannot prevent themselves from smoking because tobacco contains a drug called nicotine that makes them feel as if they need it in order to function normally. Nicotine is a substance found in t...

CIGARETTE SMOKING AND THE BODY Tobacco is consumed worldwide everyday by millions of people. Many people cannot prevent themselves from smoking because tobacco contains a drug called nicotine that makes them feel as if they need it in order to function normally. Nicotine is a substance found in t...

The Grange Family enjoys eating together as a family whenever they can. But an issue for them is the health problems of each of the individual family members, and being able to prepare one dish that is applicable and satisfying to each individuals needs. The goal is to prepare a budget family meal t...

The Heart and the Circulatory System Introduction Imagine that you are living in the year 1535, and that you don't feel well. You have had some problems with fatigue, feeling a little more tired than usual when you walked to the market and back. You tell this to your physician, and he sends y...

Recently there has been significant controversy surrounding the welfare of animals which are subject to religious slaughter. Particularly to Islamic religious slaughter, the 'halal' method, and the jewish method 'Shechita'. While both these religions promote kindness to anim...

What is coagulation? The Circulatory system is made up of many blood vessels and is a self sealing system. When a blood vessel in injured, platelets begin to stick to each other and to the sides of the injured tissue to form a plug, or a clot, which becomes covered with strands of thread like fibr...