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Mononucleosis is a viral infection causing fevers, sore throat, and swollen lymph glands, especially in the neck. It is typically caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), but can also be caused by other organisms such as cytomegalovirus (CMV). Both viruses are members of the herpesvirus family.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 15, 2006
Heart transplantation, also called cardiac transplantation, is the replacement of a patient ' s diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart. Purpose Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or some other life-threatening heart disease.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure to remove a damaged or diseased heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 25, 2007
Detailed information on heart transplant, including why a heart transplant is recommended, what is involved in heart transplant surgery, and long-term outlook for a child after a heart transplant
Source:StayWell
Heart transplantation, also called cardiac transplantation, is the replacement of a patient ' s diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart. Purpose Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or some other life-threatening heart disease.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
If you're not quite sure what's up with AIDS these days, don't feel alone. Misconceptions and falsehoods concerning AIDS and HIV abound.
Source:StayWell
New drug treatments can delay the effects of AIDS and are helping patients live longer. But the reality is that no medicine can cure AIDS or the virus that causes it, HIV. Once inside the body, HIV destroys immune system cells, making it difficult to fight off illness.
Source:StayWell
A person with HIV can look and feel perfectly healthy. But that person can give HIV to others as soon as he or she is infected with the virus.
Source:StayWell
What's true and what's not when it comes to AIDS? Here's a look at some common myths surrounding HIV infection and AIDS.
Source:StayWell
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is the final, life-threatening stage of infection with any of the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1, its many subtypes, or HIV-2), which are transmitted from person to person sexually (including via anal, oral, and vaginal intercourse, both heterosexually and homosexually), through contact with blood (mainly via equipment used to inject illicit drugs and, rarely, via medical uses of blood), and perinatally (from mother to fetus or newborn during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, or after birth through breast-feeding). ORIGIN AND HISTORY HIV-1 and HIV-2 both appear to have been transmitted to humans from primates in Central and West Africa, probably to hunters or processors of carcasses of primates consumed as food (referred to as " bush meat " ).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) by infecting helper T cells of the immune system. The most common serotype, HIV-1, is distributed worldwide, while HIV-2 is primarily confined to West Africa.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was identified in 1983 by the French scientist Luc Montagier and his staff at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Ever since that discovery, scientists have been searching for ways to treat those infected with HIV, and to produce a vaccine to prevent its spread.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
Source:StayWell
Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
Source:StayWell
Detailed information on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) during pregnancy
Source:StayWell
Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
Source:StayWell
Pneumonia in an immunocompromised host describes a lung infection that occurs in a person whose ability to fight infection is greatly impaired.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 6, 2007
Discharge Instructions for Immunocompromised PatientsYou have either undergone a procedure or been diagnosed with an illness that has made you "immunocompromised." This means that your immune system is very weak, making it difficult to fight off i...
Source:StayWell
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