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Down Syndrome Learning Center

Airway blockage during sleep; Compression injury of the spinal cord; Endocarditis; Eye problems; Frequent ear infections and increased risk of other infections; Hearing loss; Heart problems; Gastrointestinal blockage; Weakness of the back bones at...
Source:ADAM
Date:May 12, 2009
The prognosis in Down syndrome is quite variable, depending on the types of complications (heart defects, susceptibility to infections, development of leukemia) of each individual baby. The severity of the retardation can also vary significantly. ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
The prognosis for an individual with Down syndrome is quite variable, depending on the types of complications (heart defects, susceptibility to infections, development of leukemia, etc.). The severity of the retardation can also vary significantly...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
The prognosis in Down syndrome is quite variable, depending on the types of complications (heart defects, susceptibility to infections, development of leukemia) of each individual baby. The severity of the retardation can also significantly vary. ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
The prognosis for an individual with Down syndrome is quite variable, depending on the types of complications (heart defects, susceptibility to infections, development of leukemia, etc.). The severity of the retardation can also vary significantly...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
The prognosis in Down syndrome is quite variable, depending on the types of complications (heart defects, susceptibility to infections, development of leukemia) of each individual baby. The severity of the retardation can also vary significantly. ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Heart disease is any disorder that affects the heart's ability to function normally. Various forms of heart disease include: Alcoholic cardiomyopathy; Aortic regurgitation; Aortic stenosis; Arrhythmias; Cardiogenic shock; Congenital heart disease;...
Source:ADAM
Date:October 5, 2008
The heart, which is about the size of a human fist, is the body's largest, strongest, and most important muscle. The heart continuously pumps blood through the body, helps regulate and prolong health, and controls the flow (circulation) of blood t...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
Heart disease is the narrowing or blockage of the arteries and vessels that provide oxygen and nutrient-rich This illustration shows hypertrophic muscle in the heart. The lesions are due to an incompetent aortic valve. ( Illustration by Bryson Bio...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior. See also: Alzheimer's disease
Source:ADAM
Date:August 29, 2009
Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, and behavior. See also: Dementia; Alzheimer disease.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 31, 2009
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome (group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with the tasks of daily life. Dementia can occur...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome (group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with the tasks of daily life. Dementia can occur...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living, lasting more than six months, not present since birth, and not associated with a loss or alteration of consciousness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome (group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with performing the tasks of daily life. Dementi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The term dementia refers to symptoms, including changes in memory, personality, and behavior, that result from a change in the functioning of the brain. These declining changes are severe enough to impair the ability of a person to perform a funct...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Dementia is a condition characterized by a progressive, irreversible decline in mental ability, accompanied by changes in behavior and personality. There is commonly a loss of memory and skills that are required to carry out activities of daily li...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living, lasting more than six months, not present since birth, and not associated with a loss or alteration of consciousness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Dementia is a condition characterized by a chronic decline in cognitive functions contrasted with a person's usual state of functioning. It is seen most often in people sixty-five years and older, and the incidence increases with age. Dementia occ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Hearing loss is the total or partial inability to hear sound in one or both ears. See also: Hearing loss of aging
Source:ADAM
Date:April 13, 2009
Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to comprehend sound.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to apprehend sound.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Hearing impairment is the temporary or permanent loss of some or all hearing in one or both ears.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Hearing begins in the womb—pregnant women have reported feeling the fetus move in response to loud noises at 31 weeks (7 weeks before full-term delivery). Newborns are sensitive to the location, frequency, pitch, and volume of sounds. Loud sounds ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to apprehend sound.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition in which a person has episodes of blocked breathing during sleep. This article discusses obstructive sleep apnea in adults. See also: Central sleep apnea; Sleep disorders.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 21, 2009
Sleep apnea is a condition in which breathing stops for more than 10 seconds during sleep. Sleep apnea is a major, though often unrecognized, cause of daytime sleepiness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Sleep apnea, or sleep-disordered breathing, is a condition in which breathing is briefly interrupted or even stops episodically during sleep. Because repeated arousal or even full awakening when breathing stops disturbs sleep, individuals sufferin...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Sleep apnea is a condition in which breathing stops for more than ten seconds during sleep. Sleep apnea is a major, though often unrecognized, cause of daytime sleepiness. It can have serious negative effects on a person's quality of life, and is ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Leukemia is a cancer that starts in the organs that make blood, namely the bone marrow and the lymph system. Depending on their characteristics, leukemias can be divided into two broad types. Acute leukemias are the rapidly progressing leukemias, ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Leukemia is a cancer that starts in the organs that make blood, namely the bone marrow and the lymph system. Depending on their characteristics, leukemias can be divided into two broad types. Acute leukemias are the rapidly progressing leukemias, ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Acute leukemia is a type of cancer in which excessive quantities of abnormal white blood cells are produced.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
A rapidly progressing cancer that starts in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow. Leukemia results from an abnormal development of leukocytes (white blood cells) and their precursors. Leukemia cells look different than normal cells and do no...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Esophageal atresia is a disorder of the digestive system in which the esophagus does not develop properly. The esophagus is the tube that normally carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 14, 2009
Esophageal atresia (EA) is a birth defect (congenital anomaly) in which the esophagus, which connects the mouth to the stomach, is shortened and closed off (dead ended) at some point along its length. This defect almost always occurs in conjunctio...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Esophageal atresia is a serious birth defect in which the esophagus, the long tube that connects the mouth to the stomach, is segmented and closed off at any point. This condition usually occurs with tracheoesophageal fistula , a condition in whic...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Duodenal atresia is a condition in which the first part of the small bowel (the duodenum) has not developed properly. It is not open and cannot allow the passage of stomach contents.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 12, 2009
Intestinal obstruction is a partial or complete blockage of the bowel that results in the failure of the intestinal contents to pass through.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 23, 2008
Intestinal obstructions are a partial or complete blockage of the small or large intestine, resulting in failure of the contents of the intestine to pass through the bowel normally.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Intestinal obstruction is the partial or complete mechanical or nonmechanical blockage of the small or large intestine.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
An intestinal obstruction is a partial or complete blockage of the small or large intestine. Surgery is sometimes necessary to relieve the obstruction.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Total blindness is the inability to tell light from dark, or the total inability to see. Visual impairment or low vision is a severe reduction in vision that can't be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person's ability...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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