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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), or acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis, is a rare autoimmune disease marked by a sudden, widespread attack of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord. As well as causing the brain and spinal cord to become inflamed, ADEM also attacks the nerves of the central nervous system and damages their ...
Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), sometimes less precisely called immune enhancement or disease enhancement, is a phenomenon in which binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances its entry into host cells, followed by its replication. [1] [2] The suboptimal antibodies can result from natural infection or from vaccination.
This article provides a list of autoimmune diseases. These conditions, where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own cells, affect a range of organs and systems within the body. Each disorder is listed with the primary organ or body part that it affects and the associated autoantibodies that are typically found in people diagnosed ...
Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) DPT Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus: DRSP disease Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae disease DS Down syndrome: DSPS Delayed sleep phase syndrome: DTs Delirium tremens: DVD Developmental verbal dyspraxia: DVT Deep vein thrombosis
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D-plus hemolytic uremic syndrome; Drachtman–Weinblatt–Sitarz syndrome; Dracunculiasis; Duane anomaly mental retardation; Duane syndrome; Dubin–Johnson syndrome; Dubowitz syndrome; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Duhring–Brocq disease; Duhring's disease; Duker–Weiss–Siber syndrome; Duodenal atresia tetralogy of Fallot; Duodenal atresia
This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "M". Ma. Mac; Mad–Mak; Mal; Man; Mar; Mas–May; Mac. Mac Dermot Patton Williams syndrome; Mac Dermot Winter ...
Muscular dystrophies (MD) are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare neuromuscular diseases that cause progressive weakness and breakdown of skeletal muscles over time. [1] The disorders differ as to which muscles are primarily affected, the degree of weakness, how fast they worsen, and when symptoms begin. [ 1 ]