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"When there is internal bleeding, you can be hemorrhaging and not know it."
"According to these scans, you are completely healthy and in top tip physical condition."
"Lite Padar: The 'werewolf' boy with a heart of gold."
"Long Co is anybody who had symptoms following Co infection that persisted for more than 3 months."
"If you see a drop in their platelets, think about microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. The basic concept behind this is that you are actually having some type of like small clots."
"Sepsis is the body's response to severe infection... you can end up with damaged organs in sepsis, that's why it's really quite bad news."
"The woman who feels no pain... she didn't require painkillers following a major operation."
"Breathing rate is now right up on this... she's in trouble."
"Those puppies will get all kind of puffed up and distended, and we call that jugular venous distension."
"He was beyond basic hypothermia; he was getting into the far stages of hypothermia, which could be pretty bad."
"Malachi Martin died on the 27th of July 1999 of a hemorrhagic stroke."
"You're in heart failure. Your ejection fraction, which should be around 55-60, you're at 30."
"In fact, the entire front part of Cynthia's brain has atrophied, or wasted away."
"Untreated hypothyroidism increases the risk of serious complications like heart attacks."
"Grade two, that is where you get a partial tear."
"The first one is essential or primary hypertension, this is the most common type of hypertension."
"Obstructive sleep apnea... really ramps up your sympathetic nervous system."
"Some people wear their hearts on their sleeve, but 10-year-old Virsaviya Borun Goncharova wears hers on the outside of her chest."
"Tetralogy of Fallot: VORP - Ventricular septal deviation, Overriding aorta, Right ventricular hypertrophy, Pulmonary outflow tract obstruction."
"The final form of congenital heart disease, the cyanotic form, the ones with a ventricle switched and the aorta or pulmonary artery switched and so forth are very complex."
"Megaloblastic anemia is a type of anemia which is characterized by distinctive cytological and functional abnormalities in the blood cells and bone marrow cells due to impaired DNA synthesis."
"Dry eye disease is related to a deficiency or disruption in the production of the tear film that is necessary for the ocular health."
"Pericardial tamponade squeezes the heart, decreasing filling and contraction."
"A ring that looks golden brown is called a Kaiser Fleischer ring."
"Despite the fact that congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a rare and difficult condition to deal with, Gabby is heartwarmingly optimistic about her affliction."
"Going blind would be a nightmare, but Jewel suffers from a rare condition called body Integrity identity disorder which led her to deliberately take her own sight."
"Intersex people are anomalies, they suffer from an unfortunate medical condition, their existence does not destabilize or throw into question the notion of biological sex as we've always understood it."
"Serotonin toxicity is a real condition and is life-threatening in severe cases."
"His skull was broken, people could even see his brain."
"Gender dysphoria is a medically recognized thing that some people go through."
"You're basically paralyzed, you can't move, but you hear and potentially feel it. That's messed up."
"The majority of the pain that's associated with it... is when that bulging or ruptured disc irritates or compresses surrounding structures..."
"Isaiah Acosta, 21, was born with a variety of health concerns including a rare ailment known as agnathia which left him without a lower jaw."
"Frozen shoulder typically affects women more than it does men."
"Gender dysphoria is an actual medical condition that is diagnosed by specialist doctors."
"Hyponatremia is the most common of all electrolyte disorders... an independent risk factor for worse morbidity and mortality."
"You have a disorder that is difficult to treat... but there are many people who have come before you who have been successful at it and you can too."
"Born in 1863 in Lister, England, he was actually normal at birth but after about a year he started to see lumps and weird gross show up on his face."
"P.S.V.T. is an abnormally fast heart rhythm that causes palpitations, lightheadedness, sweating, and shortness of breath."
"The second you get rid of acidosis and toxemia... the cancer already stops."
"ALS is incurable. You may remember Stephen Hawking who died from ALS after amazingly living for 55 years."
"He was born with a condition called acromegaly which allowed his body to produce too much growth hormone causing him to grow at a faster rate than everyone else."
"There's a huge association between elevated A1c and fibromyalgia."
"Every single condition is going to be made worse... if you add loneliness to ME/CFS."
"He's a little boy called Joe, and he's got this big swelling in his face. He must be in a lot of pain."
"Two really wobbly infected premolars, and because they're so wobbly and infected, that pus is accumulated around the roots."
"In the abnormal case, your body is still trying to protect itself. It overreacts with what's called a cytokine storm."
"Someone whose haemophiliac would not love to see blood."
"This is called sepsis, and the resulting low blood pressure, is septic shock."
"Perhaps the main point here is that she had a clot in her leg which could have been caused by her diet."
"My back was in such excruciating pain that I actually was having contractions."
"Fortunately, Ryan's condition gradually improved."
"FOP: where injuries turn to bone, a rare and fascinating disorder."
"I haven't had any more shots of that, it seems to be okay from my end."
"Hemophilia occurs due to deficiency of clotting factor 8 or clotting factor 9, and that deficiency is owing to some genetic lesion in the genes responsible for making these clotting factors."
"The eyes of people who have too much copper copper toxicity, their eyes turn copper colored."
"I bet one person out of 50 million had hypothyroidism a thousand years ago."
"He was due to a tumor in his pituitary gland, which is the most common cause of gigantism."
"Well i had a hole in my heart the clock got stuck into it and clogged it up."
"That pocket of pus has a tremendous pressure underneath it... how painful must that be."
"We all believe this is a real syndrome in Cuba, this is concussion without blunt head trauma."
"We're going to be leveling up our mastery and popping this massive cyst on our neck."
"I'd really like to get to 350 radiculopathy it's basically where you have either like a a herniated disc or a bulging disc in your back which pinches a nerve."
"That wound is breaking down, and on top of that, we're getting that pus."
"Doctors in the US claimed that some of the victims’ lungs looked like they’d been through chemical warfare."
"A herniated or bulging disc could cause pain and compression of spinal nerves."
"I think you're dealing with these lingering After Effects... possibly secondary infection at this point as well."
"Myomi and gland dysfunction... is a leading cause of tear film instability and dry eye syndrome."
"His lips swelled up 18 inches and caused an infection that left him with holes in the skin."
"Gout is a crystalline arthropathy, which is inflammatory arthritis caused by deposition of microscopic crystals into joints and other tissue."
"Angina is due to increased myocardial demand which is reproducible and relieved by rest or nitroglycerin."
"You're experiencing temporary amnesia, it happens."
"It's basically a collection of syndromes or conditions that affect the way connective tissue forms."
"When we have a rotator cuff tear, we have a detachment of the tendon from bone."
"So, it's really good for bulging and herniated discs."
"Gastroesophageal reflux disease goes away because it's not really a gastric disease that you had, it was a weak sphincter."
"The kidney can be involved monolaterally or bilaterally with fibrotic masses."
"Hyperinsulinemia is the most common and relevant cause of insulin resistance."
"His condition was the result of a parasitic twin that was attached to his body at the base of his spine."
"Pancreatic pseudocysts can become infected due to hypovolemia, leading to systemic features like increased white blood cell count and fever."
"You're treatable, but you're not curable is how the doctors describe it."
"Niemann-Pick disease presents with foamy histiocytes and a cherry red spot on the macula."
"Fabry's disease may present with angiokeratomas and renal disease, often affecting males."
"Failure to form pus and the umbilical cord fails to detach in a newborn, classic presentation of leukocyte adhesion deficiency."
"So these are all associated with aortic regurgitation and that is likely due to this dilatation you get in the aorta in patients with Marfan's."
"Bell's palsy: Ipsilateral facial weakness, younger patients, sudden onset."
"Hashimoto's: the hypothyroidism is permanent. You don't gain that function back."
"Postpartum: this is what we call a transient hypothyroidism. It is not chronic."
"Wolf-Chaikoff effect: high levels of iodine can actually inhibit this enzyme."
"Secondary hypothyroidism: primary was this one, secondary would be low and low."
"There's not just one common or two common findings in hypothyroidism. There's many."
"Alright, we've covered a lot about hypothyroidism, the next part here is going into how do we diagnose it all right my friends let's now move into the diagnostic approach to hypothyroidism."
"The central paradox of autonomic dysfunction is that the more depleted you get, the more exaggerated your stress response becomes."
"In orthostatic intolerance, symptoms like lightheadedness, syncope, and fatigue are common due to reduced brain blood flow."
"Actually in patients with joint hypermobility syndrome, GI symptoms were very common."
"So hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland is overactive and it produces too much hormone."
"A lot of patients with POTS have pain, probably because of their joint type of mobility. Whilst we're very good at taking painkillers during the daytime, we don't necessarily concentrate on taking pain relief at night when we're sleeping."
"Ashton contemplated his own life since his heart would be a perfect match for his twin."
"He just wouldn't have two spinal cords."
"Retinal artery occlusions this is something new that we need to send to a stroke center."
"I have this medical condition that's really, really rare, not rare, but you're not allowed to be in the infantry if you have it. I'm color blind, really bad."
"Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition where your immune cells end up attacking your pancreas."
"...for this individual that level of a1c is not acceptable."
"It started with my spine, went up to my neck."
"I have a genetic disorder. It's a kind of disease. It's called CIP, which is short for congenital insensitivity to pain."
"The good news is it's not herniated. Once it herniates, that's its own beast."
"Lipedema is not fat. It's not about diet and exercise."
"Now, the second most common type you will see is the upper leg type, or the swelling begins in the hips and it terminates at the level of the knees as seen in these two incredible examples."
"When bradycardia becomes a concern is when there are symptoms."
"When there are delays in the conduction, problems may arise."
"Diagnostic criteria for mast cell activation syndrome include typical systemic symptoms, elevated serum tryptase levels, and symptom reduction with medication."
"Individuals with hereditary alpha tryptazemia often show symptoms resembling mast cell mediator release and may be mistaken for systemic mastocytosis."
"This is the hallmark of cerebral amyloid angiopathy when it's seen in an elderly person who's also demented."
"That is a good question. I'm not too familiar with grimacing tremor."
"So when you're talking about CRPS, it's inflammation, sensitization, and brain plasticity. Those are the key features, really."
"Essential tremor affects about 1-2 percent of the population."
"CRPS is very common in pregnancy... it really goes away when you are pregnant."
"High output heart failure occurs when the heart is relatively healthy but is unable to meet exaggerated demands by the body, resulting in failure despite increased cardiac output."
"CRPS is constant, continuous, unrelenting pain."
"Patients with tetralogy of flow crave oxygen."
"Time and time again, you'll hear of people who develop a bit of pulmonary edema or a bit of brain edema and they say we'll sit it out."
"What it means is that a study showed that people with RA I have as many little um Villi that are on the top of their cells which are there for nutrient absorption."
"Rotor Syndrome: No black liver, oral contraception contraindicated."
"Intravascular hemolysis is indicated by low haptoglobin, hemoglobinemia, and methemoglobinemia."
"Rheumatic mitral stenosis worsens pulmonary edema with rapid onset AFib."
"Sinus node degeneration causes sinus syndrome."
"PAD patients will most likely develop amputation over the next several years."
"Babies with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy from diabetic mothers should be treated with Propranolol."
"ABI less than 0.9 supports a diagnosis of PAD."
"Carbon monoxide poisoning should be considered in patients with MI symptoms and clear cath results."
"Please believe your patients when they tell you about this syndrome. It is real."
"I know I'm not the only person that experiences this, but I frequently have exploding head syndrome."
"The typical symptoms of a urinary tract infection or bladder infection may be increased urgency increased increased frequency burning with urination and perhaps blood but often patients with neurologic dysfunction don't have the same symptoms."
"MS is an inflammatory disorder... I'm always expecting to hear that something built up over hours to a day or two or four or six."
"Spinal stenosis is a disease of millimeters - one millimeter more of compression and significant symptoms exist."
"The doctors consider having nine toes a minor impairment."
"Degenerative disc disease is probably genetic in many patients."
"Patients can have multi-level degenerative changes."
"These symptoms are what we in the spine surgery community call cervical myelopathy."
"The problem in communicating hydrocephalus is not a blockage somewhere in the ventricular system. But a decreased compliance of the brain and vessels."
"A stroke happens when there is lack of blood flow to the brain. It is caused either by a sudden clot in an artery on the way to the brain or by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain."
"Residents suffering from delirium may see or hear things that others do not."
"A person with a pure small fiber neuropathy is gonna, how many of you ever just digress for a second, how many of you ever referred a patient of yours with complex pelvic pain to a neurologist who came back and said everything's normal?"
"Proteinuria is a condition characterized by the presence of an abnormal amount of protein in the urine, which is often a Telltale sign of kidney damage."
"Atrial fibrillation is increasingly common as the population ages but only 10 percent of the people end up getting a definitive treatment for it."
"This is not an eye pressure disease. This is a nerve cell disease, just like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. It's just a different nerve cell."
"So basically the message is a very common arrhythmia and it affects us as we age."
"Some patients actually have a swallow-induced atrial fibrillation."
"Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of irregular heart rhythm in the United States."
"Twelve-year-old Caitlin Thornley sneezes 12,000 times a day."
"AIDS patients have an infection that weakens their body's defenses. They know if they go on to develop a cancer or pneumonia they'll almost certainly die."
"What I found to be happening is that anytime my flange would get wet even just a little bit it would start to peel around the edges."
"The hernia won't go away... it's a physical defect in the abdominal wall that just is there."
"They consider it a critical medical condition with a 20% chance of mortality."
"Let me see nation's. Julia is still coughing too."
"However, the most important direct epilepsy-related cause of death is a phenomenon called sudden unexpected death in epilepsy or SUDEP for short."
"They also discovered that I was missing both my right kidney and a large chunk of my liver."
"Fibrosis can create pain, restrictions in movement, strength, and function."
"It's kind of a minor point, but I'm wondering why they didn't bring up that he had a medical condition."
"Fatty liver disease is basically just like it sounds: an accumulation of fat in the liver."
"Atrial Fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm abnormality that patients have."
"Locked-in syndrome leaves a patient with intact consciousness but minimal voluntary muscle control."
"My entire scalp was like, 'I don't think that's right.'"
"Victoria was born with a rare condition called tibial hemimelia which left her with a leg that was essentially twisted backward."
"... it's not a permanent fix it's a lazy eye so what happens is it kind of has a mind of its own and it will do what it wants to eventually..."
"Left ventricular hypertrophy is more likely to fail."
"Left ventricular hypertrophy represents a way of detecting whether you are at a higher risk from your cardiovascular condition."
"If you have too many red blood cells, we call it polycythemia. Polycythemia vera is a cancer that produces too many red blood cells."
"Sepsis is an overreaction of the body to infection and it can cause death or disabilities."
"Right now there's no medical or consensus definition, but for the sake of this presentation, I'm gonna refer to it as PASC and long COVID and use those terms interchangeably."
"DKA is basically when the person has that hyperglycemia with a complete absence of insulin."
"Patients often present in their 30s and 40s with polycystic kidney disease."
"LV hypertrophy is an indicator of increased myocardial fibrosis."
"The left atrium will enlarge with chronic increase in LV filling pressures."
"It's going to cause intense cutaneous vasoconstriction and guess what, these patients can actually start causing necrosis of their skin."
"...about 90 percent success rates. Uterine fibroids are exceedingly common, probably 20 to 40 percent of all women in America have uterine fibroids."
"Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia is something to keep in the back of your mind in any patient that you're starting on heparin."
"I always had like extreme teeth so like the basic like EDS is a kid's signs but I didn't really start having major health issues until I was 13."
"Option B is correct. During the advanced stage of shock, a patient may show signs of fatigue, confusion, and delayed speech."
"So sleep apnea or obstructive sleep apnea is when it's very closely related to snoring."
"Forming bone in the soft tissues."
"This book, 'The Dysautonomia Project,' is half for patients and half for doctors. It's been so helpful for me."
"And again, this would make sense to people with things like ankylosing spondylitis."
"You've developed a condition particular to boxers called cavum septum pellucidum, which is a hole in the mr. Balboa. It means that you've suffered some damage to the brain."
"Gastrointestinal complications of EDS are common, potentially disabling, vastly underappreciated by clinicians."
"...she was in pain everywhere, but mostly abdominal pain."
"Some people like my father-in-law who's 92 and people who have pernicious anemia have to get their B12 from shots."
"My placenta was covering my cervix which means obviously the baby can't get out because the placenta is in the way."
"My mom has defied all the medical textbooks, and she is still hanging on."
"Loss of feeling around your buttocks, your rectum, trouble with bowel bladder movements... these are signs of something called cauda equina syndrome."
"Small fiber neuropathy may be an underappreciated cause of osteoporosis."
"In the dry form, the pigment cells under the retina die off..."
"...the loss of central vision can occur quite rapidly often over a few weeks."
"She was still making urine and that her bladder wasn't overly full, so she hadn't been lying there in an unconscious state for a prolonged period of time."
"In Chondromalacia Patella, your quad muscles are usually too active, they're too stiff and short."
"After menopause, they've never seen fibroids in a patient. They disappear."
"...he did have a debilitating condition... it was totally undiagnosable then... deafening roaring in your ears so you can't stand conversation and nausea."
"Burnout is a recognized and distinct medical disorder."
"She still had some platelet hyperactivation, but then over the next few weeks, it just disappeared."
"Apnea is essentially a situation where there's a cessation of breathing."