Kenneth Kee: 523 books

Pseudobulbar Palsy (PBP) is a medical disorder in which a person loses control of facial muscles and has trouble chewing or speakingThis can be caused by a range of neurological disorders.Patients with Pseudobulbar Palsy have:1. Difficulty chewing and swallowing;2. Spasticity in the tongue and bulbar...

Friedreich ataxia is a rare disease and the most frequent inherited ataxia.It is a degenerative disorder that mainly affects the nervous system, muscles and the heart.It is often linked with cardiomyopathy or diabetesThere is progressive ataxia (in-coordination of muscles), dysarthria, reduced proprioception,...

The Overactive Bladder is defined as urgency to pass urine with or without urge incontinence and usually with frequency and nocturia.Overactive bladder is a medical disorder in which the bladder squeezes urine out at the wrong time.An overactive bladder is present if you have two or more of the following...

The spleen is an organ present in all humans.Similar in structure to a large lymph node, it acts primarily as a blood filter.Thus life is possible after the spleen is removed.The spleen plays important roles in regard to red blood cells and the immune system.It removes old red blood cells and holds...

Neuropathic pain (neuralgia) is the medical symptom of sharp, shocking pain that follows the path of a nerve and is due to irritation or damage to the nerve. Causes of Neuropathic pain Pressure on a nerve (intervertebral disc or injury) Nerve inflammation by herpes zoster virus (shingles...

Multiple Sclerosis is a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system with recurrent episodes of neurologic dysfunction disconnected in time and space and associated with evidence of demyelization of the central nervous system.It affects the patient in different areas of the nervous...

Halitosis (Bad Breath) is the medical disorder when a person suffers from chronic bad breath.Halitosis (Bad Breath) indicates that the patient has an unpleasant odor in the breath that other people observe when the patient talks or exhales.A major problem with halitosis is that often the only person...

Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is a congenital heart disorder in which an additional electrical connection in the heart can cause episodes of rapid heart rate (tachycardia)WPW syndrome is one of the most frequent causes of fast heart rate disorders in infants and children.Wolff-Parkinson-White...

Angina pectoris is a medical symptom that literally means "strangling in the chest."Patients complain that the angina symptom is a squeezing, suffocating or burning feeling in their chest but the episode of angina is not a heart attack.The heart muscle is not injured permanently and the pain normally...

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a non-inherited, non-infectious chronic medical disorder that is characterized by a burning intra-oral painful sensation.The burning sensation can be serious, as though the patient has scalded the mouth.Burning mouth syndrome can occur suddenly or develop slowly over...

Turner Syndrome is an inherited disorder of the sex chromosome in which one of the X chromosomes is missing (XO)It happens only in females and is linked with amenorrhea and infertility.Turner syndrome is a rare genetic disorder.Turner syndrome can be also described as loss or abnormality of the father’s...

AgranulocytosisAgranulocytosis is a dangerous condition which can occur from exposure to chemotherapy.One of my patients with lung cancer had just died from severe infection following the loss of white blood cells following her chemotherapy.What is Agranulocytosis?Agranulocytosis...

Herniated Disk or Prolapsed Inter-vertebral Disk is the medical disorder of prolapse of the inter-vertebral disk (which is the disk between 2 vertebrae) as a result of protrusion of the nucleus pulposus of the disk out of its weakened ligamentous ring (annulus fibrosus).The disk may protrude in a...

Most people have heard of Mediterranean Diet but have they heard of Mediterranean Fever?Mediterranean fever or Brucellosis can be used as a bioterrorism weapon.Brucellosis is a disease produced by a group of bacteria from the genus Brucella.These bacteria can cause infection in both humans and animals.Brucellosis...