The following points highlight the defects caused due to acyanotic congenital heart disease that is found in humans. The defects are: 1. Ventricular Septal Defect 2. Atrial Septal Defect 3. Patent Ductus Arteriosus 4. Aortico-Pulmonary Septal Defect 5. Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva 6. Fistula of a Coronary Artery. 1. Ventricular Septal Defect: Defect in the ventricular septa may present as [...]
Prognosis of Diseases means how we are expected to do after a disease is diagnosed. It is based on many things, including stage of disease, kind of disease, response to treatment, and our general state of health. 1. HIV/AIDS: The first drugs used to treat HIV, such as AZT (zidovudine) and ddI (didanosine), have reduced the numbers of opportunistic infections [...]
Diagnosis of infectious disease is initiated by medical history and physical examination. Detailed identification involves the culture of infectious agents (isolated from a patient) followed by their microscopic examination, detecting the presence of substances produced by pathogens, and by directly identifying an organism by its genotype. A micro-organism may be bacterial, fungal, viral or parasitic in a specimen sample can [...]