A clinical syndrome represents a typical constellation of physical (and laboratory) findings that may be seen as part of a primary disease process.
A good example is shock, a clinical syndrome seen with many primary disease processes.
Clinical syndromes
Peripheral lesions
Complete interruption of the peripheral sixth nerve causes diplopia (double vision), due to the unopposed action of the medial rectus muscle. The affected eye is pulled medially.
Axis I covers clinical syndromes like schizophrenia ad depression. Axis II includes developmental and personality disorders such as autism, mental retardation, paranoia and antisocial personality disorders.
Dementia is a clinical syndrome of decline in memory and other thinking abilities. It is caused by various diseases and conditions that result in damage to brain cells and lead to distinct symptom patterns and distinguishing brain abnormalities.
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Hypoglycemia is the clinical syndrome that results from low blood sugar. The symptoms of hypoglycemia can vary from person to person, as can the severity.
acute abdomen: Clinical syndrome characterized by abdominal pain of great severity associated with other symptoms and signs, usually those of acute peritonitis, ...
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) describes a clinical syndrome associated with shrinking of the frontal and temporal anterior lobes of the brain.
Angina pectoris is a clinical syndrome that occurs when low blood flow to the heart (myocardial ischemia) limits delivery of oxygen to the heart muscle during exertion.
Adult polyglucosan body disease: case description of an expanding genetic and clinical syndrome. Muscle Nerve. 2004 Feb;29(2):323-8. PubMed citation
Lossos A, Meiner Z, Barash V, Soffer D, Schlesinger I, Abramsky O, Argov Z, Shpitzen S, Meiner V.
Parasitic infections should be considered in the differential diagnosis of clinical syndromes in residents of or travelers to areas where sanitation and hygiene are poor or where vector-borne diseases are endemic.
Major depression is a clinical syndrome, a constellation of signs and symptoms which, taken together, suggest the diagnosis.
Gastroparesis (abbreviated as GP) represents a clinical syndrome characterized by sluggish emptying of solid food (and more rarely, liquid nutrients) from the stomach, ...
clinical syndrome that may result either from excessive growth hormone (GH) secretion by the Pituitary: Small gland in the middle of the brain. The pituitary produces some of our most important hormones, e.g.
A variety of clinical syndromes exist depending on the exact location of the seizure focus. Simple or complex motor movements may occur, and most commonly involve the face and upper extremities.
There are three major clinical syndromes that fall under the heading of altitude sickness: acute mountain sickness (AMS), high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), and high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE).
Poliovirus may cause one of four clinical syndromes:
1) Asymptomatic infection: viral infection not causing any symptoms - 90% of cases.
2) Abortive poliomyelitis: minor illness.
If delayed until adolescence or later, it can be associated with the clinical syndrome of infectious mononucleosis (also known as glandular fever or 'mono'), an illness characterised by fevers, pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy and malaise.
Interstitial Cystitis - Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a clinical syndrome characterized by daytime and nighttime urinary frequency, urgency, and pelvic pain of unknown etiology.
LCH is part of a group of clinical syndromes called histiocytoses, which are characterized by an abnormal proliferation of histiocytes (an archaic term for activated dendritic cells and macrophages).
Immediate testing is recommended for any pregnant woman who presents with a clinical syndrome compatible with AHI without a known cause, even if she tested HIV-negative earlier in pregnancy.
This is the name given to the clinical syndrome in which there is damage to the hepatocytes such that their function is significantly impaired. Because of the large size of the organ hepatocytes have much capacity to repair and regenerate.
Acute chest syndrome is a clinical syndrome found in sickle cell patients that may lead to death.
Causes
ACS can be triggered by many factors. Some of the most common are: ...
Congestive heart failure (systolic) is a clinical syndrome which refers to a condition when the heart cannot fill with enough blood or has trouble sending blood throughout the body.
Hyperthyroidism (or "overactive thyroid gland") is the clinical syndrome caused by an excess of circulating free thyroxine (T4) or free triiodothyronine (T3), or both.
Causes
Major causes in humans are: ...
Deletion of 14-3-3{varepsilon} and CRK: a clinical syndrome with macrocephaly, developmental delay… more…
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True cleft hand, in which there is no associated clinical syndrome or systemic illness, makes up fewer than 5 percent of all congenital hand conditions.
Overview: The term thyrotoxicosis refers to the hypermetabolic clinical syndrome ... Thyrotoxicosis ... patients have thyrotoxicosis caused by hyperthyroidism, ...
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Nonfunctioning tumors. Nonfunctioning tumors make up the majority of islet cell tumors. They produce none of the clinical syndromes seen above and, as a result, they are typically diagnosed at more advanced stages of disease.
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Simms MD. Language disorders in children: classification and clinical syndromes. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2007;54:437-467.
PMR is a clinical syndrome that can be a manifestation of many pathological processes, including rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA).
Barbiturates are a type of depressant drug that cause relaxation and sleepiness. In relatively low doses, barbiturates and alcohol have very similar clinical syndromes of intoxication.
pathological condition characterized by a loss of consciousness accompanied by rigidity of muscles that keeps limbs in any position in which they are placed. Attacks vary from several minutes to days and occur in a variety of clinical syndromes, ...
Anaplastic: Production of hormones by anaplastic tumors is rare.
Hormonal: Approximately 60% of adrenocortical carcinomas produce hormones. The associated clinical syndromes include the following:[1,2,3] ...
mal or petit mal have largely been replaced by more detailed classifications based on specific clinical manifestations (symptoms), mode of onset (i.e. focal are or generalised, cf. International Classification below ) and discrete clinical syndromes.
: Injury to the lung from cancer therapy: clinical syndromes, measurable endpoints, and potential scoring systems. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 31 (5): 1187-203, 1995.
Kreisman H, Wolkove N: Pulmonary toxicity of antineoplastic therapy.
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