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Viral Encephalitis: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

Viral encephalitis is a serious brain infection caused by viruses such as herpes simplex and cytomegalovirus, often leading to severe headache, fever, confusion, seizures, and possible long-term neurological complications.

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5 Dyslexia Treatments & Approaches Your Doctor May Recommend

Dyslexia treatments involve a multidisciplinary approach including speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and educational support. These interventions manage reading and writing challenges while psychotherapy and neuropsychology address cognitive and emotional needs to improve quality of life.

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Paraplegia: Symptoms, Types & Treatment

Paraplegia is paralysis of the legs due to spinal cord damage, with causes, symptoms, and types such as spastic, flaccid, complete, and incomplete paraplegia, plus main rehabilitation treatments outlined.

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Medically Induced Coma: Indications, Duration & Recovery

A medically induced coma is deep sedation used in intensive care to help patients recover from stroke, brain injury, heart attack, or severe respiratory illness. Understand indications, duration, recovery expectations, and potential risks of ICU-induced coma care.

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Absence Seizure: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

Absence seizure is a brief seizure marked by sudden staring, unresponsiveness, and loss of awareness. This article covers symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment options, seizure types, and how absence seizure may relate to ADHD.

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Morton's Neuroma: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

Mortons neuroma is a painful thickening around a foot nerve, usually between the toes, linked to burning pain, numbness, high heels, and running. The article covers symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment options, including insoles, physical therapy, injections, and surgery.

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Are bulging veins normal?

Bulging veins are usually normal and often linked to veins being close to the skin, low body fat, or increased muscle mass. In the legs, bulging veins can sometimes signal varicose veins, which may cause pain, heaviness, tired legs, and swelling later in the day.

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Tracheitis: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

Tracheitis is a rare inflammation of the trachea that can cause stridor, trouble breathing, fever, and cough with mucus. It is more common in children, usually linked to bacterial infection, and may require antibiotics, breathing support, and hospital care.

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Vasculitis: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Causes & Treatment

Vasculitis is the inflammation of blood vessels, which can restrict blood flow and affect various organs. This article details common symptoms like skin lesions and fatigue, diagnostic tests such as ANCA and ANA, and treatments involving corticosteroids or immunosuppressants to manage the condition.

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Why Does My Pee Smell Like Fish? (Causes, Symptoms & Treatment)

Pee that smells like fish is often linked to trimethylaminuria, a condition that causes trimethylamine buildup in urine and body fluids. Understanding why does my pee smell like fish may involve genetic factors, medications, or pregnancy, and symptoms can be managed with diet changes and treatment.

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Winged Scapula: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Causes & Treatment

Winged scapula is a rare condition where the shoulder blade protrudes abnormally due to muscle weakness or nerve damage. Common symptoms include shoulder pain and limited mobility. Diagnosis often involves clinical evaluation and EMG, while treatments focus on physical therapy or corrective surgery.

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Brain Dead: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment

Brain dead means irreversible loss of all brain function, including breathing and heartbeat control. This article explains symptoms, diagnostic tests, possible causes, how it differs from coma, and why it is considered legal and clinical death.

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Subserosal Fibroid: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

A subserosal fibroid is a benign uterine growth that may cause abdominal pain, pressure, bleeding, frequent urination, and constipation when large. This article outlines symptoms, possible causes, diagnosis, and treatment options, including medication and surgery.

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Craniosynostosis: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

Craniosynostosis is the early closure of a baby’s skull sutures, which can change head shape and, in severe cases, affect brain development. Symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and surgical treatment depend on the sutures involved.

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Clogged Tear Duct (Newborns / Adults): Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

A clogged tear duct, or dacryostenosis, involves blocked lacrimal drainage, causing persistent tearing, crusting, and blurred vision. While often congenital in infants or age-related in adults, resolution is possible through methods ranging from simple massage to surgical procedures like DCR.