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In 1882, Carl Friedlander described  for the first time. He described it as an encapsulated bacillus after ...

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is also known as Osler–Weber–Rendu disease. It is an autosomal dominant disorder characteri ...

Lamotrigine can be used to treat the following: partial seizures, primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures, bipolar depression, bipolar disor ...

Cholera is an acute secretory diarrheal illness caused by the bacteria . It is estimated to cause upwards of four million c ...

Aminocaproic acid has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the therapeutic management of acute hemorrhages c ...

Amiloride is a potassium-sparing diuretic that does not have much of a diuretic effect when compared to its potassium-sparing activity. It is a pyr ...

Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, also known as "statins," are used adjunctively to diet and exercise to treat hyperch ...

Cryptococcosis is an important opportunistic infection that causes more than 100,000 HIV-related deaths each year. It was named the Busse-Buschke d ...

Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin that affects coagulation pathways within the body. Vitamin K is found in foods and can be a dietary supplement. ...

Methemoglobinemia is a condition with life-threatening potential in which diminution of the oxygen-carrying capacity of circulating hemoglobin occu ...

Guanylyl cyclase catalyzes the synthesis of cGMP from GTP. Guanylyl cyclase exists in both a membrane-bound and soluble form. The membrane-bound fo ...

Reports of acute and chronic kidney diseases are increasing in the U.S. and various parts of the world. When looking for a critical metric to under ...

According to the lay press, 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. While this is not supported by medical literature, dehydration is common i ...

Magnesium sulfate is a common medication in the hospital setting with a variety of uses. It currently holds many FDA-approvals but also has numerou ...

Nisoldipine (C20H24N2O6) is an FDA-approved 1,4-dihydropyridine calcium-channel blocker for the management of hypertension. The drug may be used al ...

Opioid analgesia is indicated for the management of pain in patients where an opioid analgesic is appropriate. What, exactly, the term appropriate& ...

In Curtis Lester Mendelson’s original 1946 description of his namesake syndrome, a chemical pneumonitis was described in young and healthy ob ...

Pulmonary vascular resistance is the resistance against blood flow from the pulmonary artery to the left atrium. It is most commonly modeled using ...