Browsing Month October, 2012
What is Marfan Syndrome
By CPR Nashville, TN at October 7, 2012 | 9:14 am | 3 Comments
Marfan Syndrome is a genetic disorder in which a person’s connective tissue fails to develop properly because it inhibits the production of a protein necessary for connective tissue to develop, without this protein, connective tissue is less elastic than it normally should be, which makes it weaker than it would be on a person without the disorder. The diseased gene can more...
Lupus by Nancy Bone
By CPR Nashville, TN at October 6, 2012 | 11:41 am | 1 Comments
Lupus is a disease that affects your immune system causing it to attack the body’s tissues and organs. There are several different types of lupus but the most common is systemic lupus erythematosus. Systemic means it affects many parts of the body. Erythema is a redness of the skin, signaling inflammation or infection. Lupus has several different identifying symptoms more...
Glaucoma by Rhoda Greenburg
By CPR Nashville, TN at October 5, 2012 | 10:26 am | 5 Comments
So, your doctor has just given you a diagnosis of glaucoma. You may be asking, “What do I do now”? “Will I go blind”? “Will my vision slowly deteriorate”? Studies show that approximately 2.2 million Americans suffer from the disease, and currently, 60 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with some form of glaucoma. Studies also show that there is a more...
Chronic Open Angle Glaucoma by Ogulbyabek Annayeva
By CPR Nashville, TN at October 5, 2012 | 10:21 am | 2 Comments
Chronic open-angle glaucoma is the most ordinary type of glaucoma. Open-angle glaucoma is a chronic, progressive disease that often presents with standard optic nerve damage, retinal nerve fiber layer defects, and subsequent visual loss. The damage to the optic nerve is caused by the increased pressure, which builds up over a period of time. Open-angle glaucoma means that more...
Pneumonia by Karla Posos
By CPR Nashville, TN at October 4, 2012 | 4:09 pm | 0 Comment
What is it? Pneumonia is an infection in the lungs brought on from bacteria or germs causing one or both of the lungs to become inflamed and full of pus or fluids. It is also developed by other viruses or colds left untreated. Pneumonia is a serious problem for infants 0-12 months who are just starting to develop their immune system and for people who are 65 years more...
