hypertensive crisis

Hypertensive Crisis: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment

Brief overview Symptoms: red head, severe headache, pressure in the head, nosebleeds, nausea, vomiting, tremors; in hypertensive emergency: chest tightness, shortness of breath, numbness and visual disturbances Causes: Worsening of existing high blood pressure (possibly due to discontinuation of medication), more rarely other diseases such as kidney dysfunction or disease of hormone-producing organs, drug abuse, … Hypertensive Crisis: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment

Epstein-Barr virus

Synonym Kissing Disease – Virus EBV Pfeiffer’s disease Infectious Mononucleosis Mononucleosis infectiosaund Monocyteangina An initial infection with the Epstein Barr virus in adolescence or adulthood causes unspecific flu-like symptoms. Patients show an elevated temperature between 38.5° and 39° Celcius, limb and body pain, as well as fatigue and exhaustion. Furthermore, the lymph nodes in the … Epstein-Barr virus

Helicobacter pylori

Summary Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative rod bacterium. There are more than 300 different strains, which are distributed worldwide, are regionally and familially abundant, and their genetic information sometimes varies considerably. What they all have in common is a whole range of different adaptation mechanisms that enable it to survive in its main reservoir, the … Helicobacter pylori

Test for a Helicobacter | Helicobacter pylori

Test for a Helicobacter When detecting Helicobacter pylori, a distinction is made between so-called invasive and non-invasive methods. Invasive means that one penetrates into body tissue. There are several non-invasive test methods. With these, a colonization with Helicobacter pylori is in principle very easy to detect. One of the simplest methods uses the normal exhaled … Test for a Helicobacter | Helicobacter pylori

Infection | Helicobacter pylori

Infection The transmission path of Helicobacter pylori is not conclusively clarified. The possibility of oral-oral and faecal-oral transmission by excretion of the bacterium in stool and reabsorption by other persons, e.g. from water, is being discussed. Contaminated food also provides a source of absorption. The germ initially colonizes its main reservoir in humans, the lower … Infection | Helicobacter pylori

Virulence factors | Helicobacter pylori

Virulence factors Furthermore, Helicobacter pylori produces urease, an enzyme that breaks down urea into ammonia and CO2. This raises the pH in the bacterium’s surrounding medium, i.e. it is converted into a less acidic environment. The neutral environment is called the ammonia mantle. Helicobacter pylori also produces virulence factors such as the vacuolating VacA and … Virulence factors | Helicobacter pylori

Invagination

Synonyms in a broader sense Medical: intussusception, intestinal invagination English: intussusception Definition Invagination is a telescopic invagination of one section of the intestine into another. It occurs mainly in small children and can be life-threatening in the worst case. In infants and toddlers, intussusception can occur as a result of increased intestinal mobility or in … Invagination

Symptoms of intussusception | Invagination

Symptoms of intussusception Characteristic for an intussusception is the phase-like course of the symptoms. At the beginning, the child often has sudden cramp-like abdominal pain, cries and appears sickly. This is usually followed by a period without symptoms, which is typically interrupted by the child’s sudden shrill screaming in connection with the pulling up of … Symptoms of intussusception | Invagination

Various antihypertensive drugs | Reduce high blood pressure

Various antihypertensive drugs Generally speaking, there are 5 different groups of antihypertensive drugs. These include ACE inhibitors, diuretics, beta-blockers, calcium antagonists and Sartans, which are very similar to ACE inhibitors in terms of mode of action and side effects. The physician decides on the most suitable medication depending on the patient’s concomitant diseases. For example, … Various antihypertensive drugs | Reduce high blood pressure