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Blood & Blood Vessel (Vascular) Disorders

The basic types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatics. Their main goal is to keep blood flowing to all of your vital organs. Here, you can discuss topics related to blood disorders (anemia, blood cholesterol, hemochromatosis, hemophilia, polycythemia vera, sepsis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, thrombosis) and blood vessel disorders (arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, aneurysm, vasculitis, venous thrombosis, varicose veins, lymphedema).

Is aortic arch interruption dangerous?

A friend of mine just called me saying that her uncle was diagnosed with aortic arch interruption. That sounds really bad, I have to say! The first thing my visual mind came up with is an explosion of the aorta, and that sounds really fatal. Can someone tell me what aortic arch interruption does to...

by User avatar bobbee1975143496

Blood Sugar range

Hi, what range of blood sugar is taken as normal? I was told I am in pre-diabetic condition.

by User avatar Guest

Emergency

My friend has a history of high blood pressure and does not take his medicine, he plays in the band in college, recently from school he came home for break and he has been having high fevers, which have led to constant seizures and lack of muscular movement and disorientment of the brain; not...

by User avatar Prospects2859

sickle cell anemia

The majority of us with sickle cell anemia, but not all, has the same living style and the same crisis. I was thinking in all of you and I realize that I really don't know exactly how you fell and how you live, what are your goals in life. I don't try to ask you nothing but it maybe will be the...

by User avatar Guest

i m tired Can t take it anymore

I ve been itching my legs a lot in the past couple of months and the next day i get bruises , everytime i scratch i get a new bruise the next day , and these bruises hurt when i touch them , but there is noway that they can appear without itching, i get a small spot then it turns to a bruise , i...

by User avatar Guest

varicose vein

Answered by a doctor

HI, i am a young Tibetan boy. My mother is a 52 year old and she has had varicose veins for almost six years. She does lots of work in the fields, which is to bring river water to the fields. So she was wading across the water in the fields all the time this period of every summer. And all of sudden...

by User avatar Tibet boy6695

What is the fluid used in place of plasma

I keep coming across the expression Plasma Substitute. What exactly is used as a substitute. I am interested in how this might be used in the treatment, Plasma Exchange in a patient with Waldenstrom's hyperviscoasity. ?

by User avatar Guest

Hypoglobulinemia alternative treatment

My mother is 77 and has hypoglobulinemia. Her quality of life of Zero. She previously had IV immunoglobulin therapy but this has not been stopped owing to cost. She has just had a double blind trial at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead to see whether it is worth restarting this therapy. The...

by User avatar Guest

Have high sed rate, what does it mean?

Hello, I am 48 years old and each year I go on a regular complete medical check up, including blood and urine test. Unfortunately, the last time, couple of days ago, it was discovered that I have a high sed rate, and I have to go for some more analysis. What does it mean? What possible conditions...

by User avatar hildegaard83761062

rule for calculating normal sed rate

I have to admit that having a kid is not an easy task, not because the little one is always so energetic and cannot be still for a minute, but because of the constant illnesses he picks up at school. Is there some sort of rule for calculating a normal sed rate? I guess I don’t have to take him...

by User avatar fanni34392