Posts Tagged ‘pneumonia’

Antacid and Reflux Drugs: Proton Pump Inhibitors

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Antacid and Reflux Drugs: Proton Pump Inhibitors

Lansoprazole (Prevacid)
Omeprazole (Prilosec)
Pantoprazole (Protonix)
Rabeprazole (Aciphex)
Esomeprazole (Nexium)

HOW DO THESE DRUGS WORK?

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) block the secretion of acid into the stomach by the acid-secreting cells with a different mechanism than H2 blockers. More specifically, PPIs inhibit the proton pump of the parietal cells (the stomach

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Acute respiratory infections (ARI)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

What is acute respiratory infections (ARI)?

ARI – acute respiratory infections (acute catarrh of the respiratory tract). A very common disease with a primary lesion of the respiratory tract. Due to different etiological agents (viruses, mycoplasma, bacteria). Immunity after the disease is strictly type-specific, such as influenza virus, parainfluenza, herpes simplex, rhinovirus. Therefore, the same person can suffer from acute respiratory disease up to 5-7 times a year. The source of infection is a person with clinically significant or deleted forms of acute respiratory illness. Equally important is a healthy virus carrier. Transmission occurs predominantly via droplets. Diseases found in the form of individual cases and epidemic outbreaks.

Acute respiratory infections (ARI)

Acute respiratory infections (ARI)

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Meningococcal infection (meningitis) symptoms

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

What is meningococcal disease?

Meningococcal disease – a disease caused by meningococcus, occurring in different clinical forms. In the external environment quickly, at a temperature of 55 degrees Celsius agent dies within 5 minutes, under the influence of disinfectants for 1-2 minutes, sensitive to penicillin, Levomycetinum, tetracyclines, sulfanilamides. The source of infection may be sick meningococcal meningitis, bacillicarriers. Ill intensely isolated microbes into the environment in the initial stage of the disease buy Revatio. Meningococcus carrier status in the recovery period lasts about 3 weeks. The mechanism of airborne infection. Often, sick children of preschool age. Maximum occurring in autumn-winter period.

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Q fever

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Q fever

What is Q fever?

Q fever. – Acute rickettsial disease characterized by general toxic phenomena, often with fever and atypical pneumonia. Pathogen – a small organism. Very resistant to drying, heat, ultraviolet irradiation. Reservoir and source of infection are various wild and domestic animals, and ticks. Infection of people are in contact with them, consumption of dairy products and airborne dust by. The disease is detected during the whole year, but more often in spring and summer. KU-fever is widespread across the globe, natural foci are found in 5 continents.

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Lung abscess

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Lung abscess

Lung abscess – a limited purulent destructive process in the lung tissue with the presence of one or more cavities filled with pus and pronounced perifocal inflammatory infiltration.

Etiology.

The causative pathogen is often golden hemolytic staphylococcus, which in recent years, often combined with other pathogenic and opportunistic microorganisms (Escherichia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella, viruses).

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Pneumonia treatment

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

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Pneumonia chronic

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Pneumonia chronic

Pneumonia chronic – chronic nonspecific bronchopulmonary process characterized by irreversible morphological changes in the form of deformation of the bronchus and pneumosclerosis in one or more segments and accompanied by a recurrence of inflammation in lung tissue and (or) bronchus.

Etiology.

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Pneumonia eosinophilic

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Pneumonia eosinophilic

Pneumonia eosinophilic expressed in the form of a rapidly disappearing infiltrates (Loeffler infiltration) in the lung against the background of eosinophilia, accompanied by varying degrees of severity of clinical signs are usually a reaction to the larval stage of nematode (roundworm, toksokary), Aspergillus, and other allergens. Severe cases require steroid therapy along with etiotropic treatment for fungal infection.

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Recurrent pneumonia

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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Pneumonia Pneumococcal

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Pneumonia Pneumococcal

It remains the most common in children 6 months – 4 years, occupying a significant place among the pneumonia and the older children. Of the 83 serotypes of pneumococcus 20-25 rise to more than 95% of all cases of pneumonia. High level of maternal immunity to pneumococcus children lose the end of the first year of life, increase in antibody titers (carriage, infection) is accelerated after 3 years. Several serotypes (3, 5, 9) is characterized by high virulence, they, like others, new to the patient serotypes often have complicated forms. According crops lung punctate, pneumococcus is often accompanied by Haemophilus influenzae in

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