Mumps : Complications

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Complications could include:
Infection of other organs may occur, including orchitis.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 18, 2006
When mumps is uncomplicated, prognosis is excellent. However, in rare cases, a relapse occurs after about two weeks. Complications can also delay complete recovery.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
When mumps is uncomplicated, prognosis is excellent. However, in rare cases, a relapse occurs after about two weeks. Complications can also delay complete recovery.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Acute cerebellar ataxia is sudden onset of uncoordinated muscle movement .
Source:ADAM
Date:August 9, 2007
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:October 24, 2007
Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to apprehend sound. Sound can be measured accurately.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to apprehend sound. Sound can be measured accurately.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to comprehend sound. Sound can be accurately measured.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
A spontaneous abortion is the loss of a fetus during pregnancy due to natural causes. The term "miscarriage" is the spontaneous termination of a pregnancy before fetal development has reached 20 weeks. Pregnancy losses after the 20th week are categorized as preterm deliveries. The term "spontaneous abortion" refers to naturally occurring events, not elective or therapeutic abortion procedures. Other terms include: missed abortion (a pregnancy demise where nothing is expelled) incomplete abortion (not all of the products of conception are expelled) complete abortion (all of the products of conception are expelled) threatened abortion (symptoms indicate a miscarriage is possible) inevitable abortion (the symptoms cannot be stopped, and a miscarriage will happen) infected abortion
Source:ADAM
Date:September 19, 2006
A miscarriage is the loss of an embryo or fetus before the twentieth week of pregnancy . A pregnancy loss after the twentieth week is called a stillbirth.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Miscarriage means loss of an embryo or fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy . Most miscarriages occur during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Mumps is an acute , contagious, viral disease that causes painful enlargement of the salivary or parotid glands.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 18, 2006
Mumps is a relatively mild short-term viral infection of the salivary glands that usually occurs during childhood. Typically, mumps is characterized by a painful swelling of both cheek areas, although the person could have swelling on one side or no perceivable swelling at all.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Mumps is a relatively mild short-term viral infection of the salivary glands that usually occurs during childhood. Typically, mumps is characterized by a painful swelling of both cheek areas, although the person could have swelling on one side or no perceivable swelling at all.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Transverse myelitis (TM) is an uncommon neurological syndrome caused by inflammation (a protective response which includes swelling, pain , heat, and redness) of the spinal cord, characterized by weakness, back pain, and bowel and bladder problems. It affects one to five persons per million.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of the full width of the spinal cord that disrupts communication to the muscles, resulting in pain , weakness, and muscle paralysis. The symptoms of transverse myelitis are due to damage and/or destruction of the myelin sheath, the fatty white covering of nerve fibers that serves both to insulate the nerve fibers and to speed nervous conduction along them.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Transverse myelitis (TM) is an inflammation or infection of the spinal cord in which the effect of the lesion spans the width of the entire spinal cord at a given level. The spinal cord consists of four regions: the cervical (neck), followed by the thoracic (chest), the lumbar (lower back) and the sacral (lowest back).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
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