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Leukemia Cancer Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Leukemia is a type of blood cancer or bone marrow. It refers to white blood cell and start in the tissue that forms blood. Bone marrow is that centers of bone where blood cell is made. There are various types of blood cell including red blood cell, white blood cell in the body but this cancer is mostly affected in large numbers of abnormal white blood cells. It is a group disease called hematological neoplasm’s. There are four types of leukemia cancer: 1) Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: It affect over the age of 55. 2) Acute lymphoblastic leukemia: It is most common in young children. 3) Acute myelogenous leukemia: This type of cancer grows quickly and affects both younger and adult. 4) Chronic myelogenous leukemia: It is mainly for adults, start with myeloid and grow slowly to fast. Causes of Leukemia Cancer: The causes of leukemia cancer are age, genetic, environmental, lifestyle variables, with high level of radiations or chemotherapy, family history. All these forms are spread the ca...

Mumps Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What are Mumps? Mumps are a contagious viral disease of the human that leads to painful swelling of the parotid glands also known as saliva glands. Mumps is caused by a virus that usually affects to children but adults can also get it. Mumps spread through saliva and infect many parts of the body like in cheek, neck, below your ears and near your jaw line, these glands become painful and swell. Mumps is that disease which is spread form one person to another through the infected person release virus in the air. Mumps is disease which recovers completely and no long term mark left. Mumps symptoms are seen in 14 to 16 days, during the time virus will multiply in the cells and increase the level of circulating in bloodstream. Causes of Mumps : Mumps are caused by virus (paramyxovirus), many other infections disease is caused by this virus. It is mainly infected salivary glands and reproduces which located below and in front of the ears. It is spread by direct contact of infected person. ...

Asterixis Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Asterixis? Asterixis is a type of movement disorder characterized by arrhythmic flexion movements of hands evoked by dorsiflexion of the wrists and outstretched arms. It is an involuntary tremor of the wrist loss of sustained contraction of the arms against ones will. It is produced by lapse of sustained posture. Mainly it causing hand tremors and the tremor occurs in both wrists and is not rhythmic characterized by metacarpophalangeal joints, jerky, irregular movements at the wrist and often accompanied by lateral movements of the fingers. Sometime this condition is called liver flap because it indicate brain damage or liver damage. Asterixis might be caused by kidney problems. Causes of Asterixis : The common cause of asterixis is liver failure or it might be caused by the problems of kidney failure. This is called azotemia. Kidneys have trouble in filtering out nitrogen-based compounds. Other causes are DRUGS (ABC) like alcohol, anticonvulsant phenytoin and carbamazepine, ...

Paraplegia Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Paraplegia? Paraplegia is that condition which is used to define the body loss movement sensory function or impairment in motor which is usually caused by damage of the spinal cord injury or congenital condition. In this disease both legs and arms are affected. The result is loss movement and feeling. Spinal canal area which is affected in paraplegia is lumbar, thoracic or sacral regions. Paraplegia is defining the paralysis which affects only the lower half of the body. Causes of Paraplegia : The common cause of paraplegia is damage to the spinal cord or from vehicle accidents, sports injury, injury to the nervous system, infection, genetic disorder, spinal tumors, stroke, compression of the spinal cord which resulting swelling and inflammation. Differential Diagnosis of paraplegia : There several differential diagnosis which is found by Trauma Causes, infectious disorder, development disorder, anemia, acute infection(paralysis) and stroke. Symptoms of Paraplegia : The sym...