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It is an autoimmune disease and a form of vasculitis that affects small- and medium-sized vessels in many organs, but most commonly affects the upper respiratory tract, lungs, and kidneys. [6] The signs and symptoms of GPA are highly varied and reflect which organs are supplied by the affected blood vessels.
Friedrich Wegener (7 April 1907, Varel – 9 July 1990, Lübeck, [veːɡɐnəɐ̯]) was a German pathologist who is notable for being a high-ranking Nazi physician and for his description of a rare disease originally referred to Wegener disease and now referred to as granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Although this disease was known before ...
Goodpasture syndrome (GPS), also known as anti–glomerular basement membrane disease, is a rare autoimmune disease in which antibodies attack the basement membrane in lungs and kidneys, leading to bleeding from the lungs, glomerulonephritis, [1] and kidney failure. [2]
She was a painter under her birth name Einar Wegener. [3] After transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes, stopped painting, [4] and later adopted the surname Elbe. She was the first known recipient of a uterus transplant in an attempt to achieve pregnancy, but died due to the subsequent complications. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Similar to Wegener, many people describe feeling a “pop” at the onset of the headache due to the subarachnoid hemorrhage, said Patrick Youssef, MD, a neurosurgeon at The Ohio State University ...
Signs and symptoms of pregnancy are common, benign conditions that result from the changes to the body that occur during pregnancy. Signs and symptoms of pregnancy typically change as pregnancy progresses, although several symptoms may be present throughout. Depending on severity, common symptoms in pregnancy can develop into complications. [1]
Doctors should be alert to symptoms of parvovirus, or Fifth disease, the CDC says. Pregnant women are at high risk from the virus, which can lead to fetal death.
The disease is therefore now regarded as a NK/T cell malignancy, is grouped with other Epstein–Barr virus–associated lymphoproliferative diseases [4] and is classified by the World Health Organization (2017 update) as a manifestation of the well-defined disease, extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKTCL-NT).