When a patient presents with symptoms characteristic of nephrotic syndrome, a diagnosis can be made with a urinalysis test. Other tests, such as blood tests
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One of the common early symptoms of Batten disease is loss of vision and the disease may first be suspected during an ophthalmic examination. A
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Shoulder pain is the third most frequent musculoskeletal symptom encountered in medical practice after back and neck pain. A wide range of potential pathological entities
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Exercise and diet alone often fails to effectively treat people with extreme and excessive obesity. Bariatric surgery is an operation that is performed in order
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Defibrillators are the devices used to deliver shocks to the heart in cases of life threatening cardiac disorders. Electrodes that are connected to the machine
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Microcephaly is a condition in which a newborn baby has a much smaller head circumference than expected for the average infant at the same stage
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Metformin represents a biguanide that has been used globally for the treatment of the diabetes mellitus type 2 during the last five decades. It improves
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Obesity and overweight have in the last decade become a global problem – according to the World Health Organization (WHO) back in 2005 approximately 1.6
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia or ALL is the cancer of the lymphoid white blood cells. There are several risk factors that raise the risk of this
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which nerve cells in the substantia nigra, a pigmented dopamine-rich region in the brain, are destroyed gradually
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