Imperforate Anus (Anal Atresia)
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Dr. Anshu GuptaPosted
Tue 02 Jun 2009 4:39pm
Imperforate anus or anal atresia is a congenital abnormality in which the anorectal region is abnormal or incompletely developed. In some cases, the rectum may end and not connect with the anus, or it may connect in the wrong spot. For example, it may connect to the urethra, bladder, or vagina. (See the section on fistulas ). In other cas ...
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Is Your Disease on the RARE List™ – If So, More Bad News!
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Chris H.Posted
Mon 06 Feb 2012 3:01pm
I wonder if people truly understand what it means if their rare disease or disorder is on the RARE List™?
Last week, the R.A.R.E. Project and Global Genes Project , leading patient advocacy organizations representing the rare disease community, issued the RARE List™ , a stunning 65 page ...
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Digestive system house (CasAnus)
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Thomas S.Posted
Thu 13 Nov 2008 1:16am
Dutch designer Joep Van Lieshout’s website contains quite a few interesting works of interest for medical museum designers, like CasAnus (2007), a house which is (reasonably anatomically accurately) shaped like the human digestive system. It’s made to function as a small hotel, with bed- and bathroom. I thought it would be great to enter it throu ...
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heinous anus
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Melissa M.Posted
Tue 24 Feb 2009 11:20pm
We celebrated my hubby's birthday on Saturday with a night on the town with a few friends. My hubby drank a few pints of Guinness. It was his birthday, my soon to be sister in law was driving so he drank a few more than his digestive track would allow. His bowels revolted and produced a stench so heinous, that I literally almost threw up in m ...
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Hur Hur hur they said Ur(anus)
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Girl Blue ..Posted
Sat 05 Sep 2009 10:02pm
Joke aside this is actually not entirely inaccurate
Your Name Comes From Uranus
You're the type of person who gets bored very easily when things stay the same.
You need, crave, and create change. You love dreaming about the future.
You are obsessed with ideas and theories. You are never tied to yo ...
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Rare Ectopic Pregnancy, again
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findingevePosted
Thu 09 Apr 2009 7:14pm
In the last blog entry I detailed the story of Zahra Aboutalib, a Moroccan woman with a rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy, a lithopedion. The second incredibly rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy that I will cover happened to an English woman named Jane Ingram. Jane was a 32 year old woman living in Suffolk, England, when she ...
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Ectopic Pregnancy After IVF
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John David Gordon MDPosted
Fri 25 Sep 2009 3:34pm
My brother Mike is a real doctor. I mean it. He is a general surgeon in a small town in North Carolina and has not had a full night’s sleep in about 27 years. He is always being called out to the ER to help save someone’s life (or at least remove their appendix) in the middle of the night. The life of a fertility doctor is very different.
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Why we rarely diagnose junctional ectopic beats ?
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Dr. Sangareddi V.Posted
Sat 26 Dec 2009 6:35am
Ectopic beats , other wise called premature depolarisaton are one of the common ECG abnormalities diagnosed by physicians.
Atrial premature beats (APDs)
Ventricular premature beats(VPDs)
APDs and VPDs form the bulk of all clinically important ectopic beats.
Heart has a specialised electrical conducting system , eve ...
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3 minutes crash course on ventricular ectopic beats (VPDs)
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Dr. Sangareddi V.Posted
Thu 09 Jul 2009 4:45pm
Ventricular ectopic beats are the most common cardiac electrical abnormality for which cardiologist’s consultation is sought.VPDs are one of most benign observations in ECG and and almost every heart experiences it. In 24 hour holter recordings it was reported up to 25% of healthy individuals .
In spite of this , the fear of noting a ...
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