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Cardiac amyloidosis is a disease caused by the accumulation of clumps of abnormally folded protein in the heart muscle. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
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Also known as preterm birth, premature birth is when a baby is born before the 37th week of pregnancy. Premature babies are at increased risk for a number of health problems.
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Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia, causing confusion and memory loss severe enough to interfere with everyday life.
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Dementia refers to loss of brain function that affects capabilities like remembering, thinking, speaking, understanding others, and acting in socially acceptable ways.
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Congenital heart disease refers to a structural problem that has affected the way the heart or major blood vessels have formed. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
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An atrial septal defect is a hole in the wall that divides the two chambers of the heart. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
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A congenital anomaly in which part of the aorta is narrowed, resulting in reduced blood flow to the lower body and legs.
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A life-threatening heart birth defect that interferes with normal blood flow through the heart. The heart's two great arteries, the aorta and main pulmonary artery, are switched, limiting the heart's ability to provide the body with oxygen-rich blood and preventing oxygen-poor blood from getting to the lung.
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A congenital heart condition characterized by four different heart abnormalities that prevent blood from flowing through the heart in its normal way.
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Truncus arteriosus is a rare congenital heart defect in which the heart's two main arteries don't form correctly during fetal development. It changes the way that blood moves through the heart and lungs and throughout the body.
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A ventricular septal defect is a hole in the wall between the two lower chambers of the heart and is a type of congenital heart defect. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
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A congenital heart defect characterized by holes in the heart where there are normally walls that separate different heart chambers, as well as abnormal heart valves that leak.
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COVID-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2, the 2019 novel coronavirus.
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A procedure in which a health care provider examines the upper gastrointestinal tract with a thin, flexible tube equipped with a camera called an endoscope. The endoscope is inserted into the nose, down the throat, and into the stomach and sometimes the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. The procedure is done without sedation.
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Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate, or HoLEP, is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of urinary symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia. The procedure involves using a holmium laser to remove excess prostate tissue to improve urinary symptoms.
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Dengue fever, also called dengue, is a mosquito-borne illness caused by infection with any of four closely related dengue viruses. It can cause a range of symptoms including fever, headache, pain behind the eyes, nausea, vomiting, aches and pains, and rash.
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Alopecia areata happens when the immune system attacks hair follicles. This causes the hairs in those follicles to fall out and not grow back.
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Corneal cross-linking is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for treating corneal ectasia, a group of conditions marked by thinning, weakening, and bulging of the cornea, the outermost layer of the eye. It is FDA approved for the treatment of keratoconus and corneal ectasia that can occur after refractive surgery such as LASIK.
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Midwifery refers to the care of women and childbearing people during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period, as well as care of the newborn baby. They may also provide gynecologic care, family planning, and routine primary care.
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Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare, aggressive form of skin cancer. It usually affects sun-exposed areas of the body, but it can occur in sun-shielded areas, too. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
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