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Anasarca Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Anasarca is a medical condition referred to a person who experiences generalized edema. Anasarca is a general swelling throughout the body, considered a massive edema due to effusion of fluid in to the extracellular space. There may be other type edema occurring simultaneously, other organs and cavities also affected by edema. Anasarca is different condition than a slight swelling mostly occurs in the feet. Anasarca is very common in patients with kidney failure and heart failure. Usually anasarca indicates severe illness and may often be seen in the serious condition. Usually it is caused by cirrhosis of the liver or renal failure and increase over a short period of time. To manage the swelling treatment will be seen by doctor. Causes of Aanasarca : There are some medical conditions which leads to swelling include. There are different causes which affect both men and women: Eclampsia / Pre-eclampsia Liver failure due to cirrhosis leads to a variety of other complications Kidney dise...

Amnesia Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Amnesia? Amnesia is a condition resulting in loss of memory because of brain hemorrhage. It can be last for two hours, two months or few hours for a long time. Many people have amnesia in the form of a transitory "blackout”. Amnesia may also involve a total loss of memory about the period or event. In severe cases, people not only loss his past memory but also have painful event, period of time and his or her identity. Person who has amnesia lives only with present no collection of the past. This loss of memory occurs due to some brain hemorrhage, head injury, stroke, psychological experience or a result of disease such as trauma or stress. Some common types of amnesia are: Anterograde Amnesia : In this condition the person short term memory is impacted due to injury to the head which causes brain trauma. Retrograde Amnesia : In this condition memory loss for events before brain hemorrhage. Lacunar amnesia : This type of amnesia create blockage in your mind. Transient Glo...