The ABCs of Hepatitis HEPATITIS A is caused HEPATITIS B is caused by the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) HEPATITIS C is caused by the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) U.S. Statistics • stimated 3,500 new infections E in 2013 • stimated 19,800 new infections in 2013 E • stimated 1.2 million people with chronic HBV E infection • stimated 29,700 new infections in 2013 E • stimated 3.2 million people with chronic E HCV infection Routes of Transmission Ingestion of fecal matter, even in microscopic amounts
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1 THE MUSHROOM FACTORY The following case is an in-depth look at the events in the Accessories D e p a r t m e n t of the Esco Company, a Midwest manufacturer, during a period of rapid change. Source: This case was prepared by Alex G. Dompkowski, Otto A. Gearhart, Jr., and Roberta P. Marquette, under the supervision of Theodore T. Herbert. The case is not intended to reflect either effective or ineffective administrative or technical practices, but was prepared as a basis for class discussion
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palaces. There were no walls like Indus River Valley then no fear of war or foreign attack. It was urban area with palace structure. There was also no civil unrest. It just looked like an utopian society. It had 2 separate languages, Linear A and Linear B which
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vitamins are able to dissolve in either water or fat then they are able to be transported within the body and put to use in the body. Vitamins are alphabetically named by which order they were first identified. Water soluble vitamins consist of the B vitamins as well as the Vitamin C and the fat soluble vitamins consist of A, D, E, and K vitamins. If we eat a healthy well balanced diet we will normally get all the vitamins we need because just about all the foods we eat contain vitamins, but if we
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The Road to Cirrhosis Cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease that is characterized by normal liver cells being replaced by scar tissue. This affects the normal functioning of the liver and usually occurs from years of damage to the liver, resulting in inflammation, scarring and thickening of the fibrous tissues. It is most often a result of chronic hepatitis C or alcoholism, however there are other causes which will be discussed throughout this paper. Why is the liver important? More often than not
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Surabhi Madadi AP Biology Period 4 Genetic Disorder: Hemophilia A Hemophilia A, or “The Royal Disease,” literally means “love of bleeding.” It is the most common type of hemophilia. People with hemophilia A bleed extensively after injuries due to a missing or defective clotting protein, factor VIII. Two-thirds of hemophiliacs inherit hemophilia from their parents, while the remaining one-third obtain it from a spontaneous mutation during embryonic development. Hemophilia has been recognized since
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INTRODUCTION According to “Rosdahl, C.B., & Kowalski, M.T. Textbook of Basic Nursing, 10th ed., Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012, Chapter 72: Care of the Infant, Toddler, or Preschooler, p. 1155-1156”, Hemophilia is a rare gender linked hereditary bleeding disorder. It is more common in males than females. Males become symptomatic from this disorder because females are the carriers of the gene but very rarely symptomatic. It is caused by an insufficient clotting
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population in particular at risk to this disease (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012). What is Hepatitis? Hepatitis is the swelling of the liver that makes it to stop working well. There are five main types of known Hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis D and Hepatitis E (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012). Liver is organ of the body that is responsible for the variety of functions such as Detoxifications, store vitamins, maintain production of the biochemical needed by
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UPMC said today that the reason it shut down its live kidney donor transplant program was that a patient recently received a kidney from a donor who was hepatitis C positive. The revelation prompted UPMC late Monday to voluntarily suspend the program until a thorough review can be completed by the United Network for Organ Sharing, the agency that oversees the nation's transplant centers. "We have voluntarily postponed currently scheduled living donor kidney cases until UNOS can complete a review
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“HEPITITIS B VIRUS” Daniella Braude CAUSE The Hepatitis B virus is the most common liver infection in the world and is caused by the hepatitis B virus. The hepatitis B virus enters the body and travels to the liver via the bloodstream. In the liver, the virus attaches to healthy liver cells and multiplies. This replication of the virus then triggers a response from the body’s immune system. People are often unaware they have
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