What is dextroscoliosis?
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What is scoliosis?\nScoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine, or backbone. The bones that make up the spine are called the vertebrae. The degree of scoliosis ranges from mild to severe. Patients with milder curves may only need to visit their doctor for periodic observation. Persons with more severe scoliosis may require treatment.\n\nWho develops scoliosis?\nPeople of all ages can have scoliosis, but this article focuses on children and adolescents. Of every 1,000 children, 3 to 5 develop spinal curves that are considered large enough to need treatment. Adolescent idiopathic (of unknown cause) scoliosis is the most common type and appears after the age of 10. Girls are more likely than boys to have this type of scoliosis. \n\nSince scoliosis can run in families, a child who has a parent, brother, or sister with idiopathic scoliosis should be checked regularly for this condition by the family doctor.\n\nIdiopathic scoliosis can also affect children younger than 10 years of age, but this is very rare. Juvenile idiopathic scoliosis appears in children between the ages of 3 and 10. Early onset or infantile idiopathic scoliosis, which occurs in children less than 3 years old, is more common in Europe than in the United States.
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It is a hereditary condition affecting lungs or liver.  Find more here:\n\nhttp://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/alpha1def.htm\n\nHope that helps...
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I know people with hypercortisolism have symptoms similar to those of excessive Aldosterone secretion. I would guess it's a mineralocorticoid, and promotes absorbtion of Na+ at the DCT/CT. Hope this helps.
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Hurler syndrome (MPS1) is an inherited and progressive disorder that results from the body's inability to make lysosomal alpha-L-iduronate, an enzyme that helps breakdown mucopolysaccharides. Mucopolysaccharides are made of a Jello-like material and are found throughout the body, often in mucus secretions and in fluids surrounding the joints.\n\nThe enzyme deficiency found in Hurler syndrome causes mucopolysaccharides to build up in the body.  The result is a multisystem disorder with symptoms that range from mild to severe. The disease damages many organs, including the heart.\n\nIn the past, MPS1 was called Hurler syndrome, Hurler-Scheie syndrome, or Scheie syndrome. Because there is no clear distinction between the groups, a classification based on disease severity has been suggested:\n\nHurler as severe MPS1 \nHurler-Scheie as intermediate MPS1 \nScheie as mild MPS1 \nHurler syndrome is inherited as an autosommal recessive trait. Approximately 1 in 115,000 individuals are affected.
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Osteochondritis dissecans, like Osgood-Schlatter disease, is most commonly found in active adolescents or young adults. It results from a loss of blood supply to the area of bone beneath a joint surface; this may be due to a slight blockage of a small artery, an unrecognized injury, or a minuscule fracture that damages the cartilage overlying the joint. The result is avascular necrosis (bone degeneration due to lack of blood supply). Although osteochondritis dissecans most often affects the inner side of the knee at the end of the femur, it may be found in other parts of the knee or other joints as well. As time goes on, the lack of blood causes the affected bone and its cartilage covering to loosen, resulting in pain and possibly severe osteoarthritis.
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it's probably not osteoporosis, it's probably Scoliosis. Which is very common, go see your pediatrician
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1. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). This group of HDCTs mostly affects the skin and joints. With EDS, connective tissue becomes weak. This can cause fragile, sagging skin, and loose joints. \n2. Epidermolysis bullosa (EB). With these disorders, the skin blisters when it is stressed. For example, a hug could cause a blister. \n3. Marfan syndrome. This disorder can affect the heart, blood vessels, lungs, eyes, bones, and ligaments. People with this syndrome may be unusually tall and thin, with long arms and legs. \n4. Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). With this disorder, bones break easily. Sometimes they break for no obvious reason.
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The condition is called lipodystrophy.\n\nhttp://www.bddiabetes.co.uk/cgi-bin/bd/bdweb/eservices/content/show.bd?Channel=%2fKnowledge+editorials%2fUK+BDM_DC+Documents%2fDB1480B55977328100256E35005C8E1F%2fBCAEF61C34548FF300256E35005E9B1E&BD_SID=UWtSVlN5NUNSRTFmUkVNPTpNQT09Ojo&BD_SID=UWtSVlN5NUNSRTFmUkVNPTpNQT09Ojo%3d&RootChannel=%2fKnowledge+editorials%2fUK+BDM_DC+Documents%2fDB1480B55977328100256E35005C8E1F
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Ellis-van Creveld syndrome: A type of short stature with striking shortening of the ends of the extremities (arms and legs), polydactyly (extra digits), fusion of bones in the wrist, dystrophy (abnormal growth) of the fingernails, change in the upper lip variously called 'partial hare-lip,' 'lip-tie,' etc., and cardiac (heart) malformations. The teeth may already be erupted at birth (natal teeth) and fall out prematurely. \n\nThe Ellis-van Creveld (EvC) syndrome was first described by Drs. Richard W. B. Ellis of Edinburgh and Simon van Creveld of Amsterdam. Each had a patient with this syndrome, as they had discovered when they met in the same train compartment on the way to a pediatrics conference in England in the late 1930s.
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Compartment syndrome occurs when a fixed compartment, defined by myofascial elements or bone, becomes subject to increased pressure, leading to ischemia and organ dysfunction. Well recognized to occur in the extremities, it also occurs in the abdomen, and some believe, in the intracranial cavity. The exact clinical conditions that define abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) are controversial; however, organ dysfunction caused by intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) is considered to be ACS. The dysfunction may be respiratory insufficiency secondary to compromised tidal volumes, decreased urine output caused by falling renal perfusion, or any organ dysfunction associated with impaired perfusion.
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Scoliosis is a condition that involves complex lateral and rotational curvature and deformity of the spine. It is typically classified as congenital (caused by vertebral anomalies present at birth), idiopathic (sub-classified as infantile, juvenile, adolescent, or adult according to when onset occurred) or as having developed as a secondary symptom of another condition, such as cerebral palsy or spinal muscular atrophy.\n\nfor more click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoliosis#Cause
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A corn is a small area of of thickened skin on a toe as a result of excess pressure, normally from ill fitting footware.\nIt is the body's natural defense to prevent skin breakdown in much the same way callus' develop on the hands etc.\nTreatment includes the use of spongy rings or corn pads to relieve pressure from the area.\nEnsuring correctly fitting shoes are worn will prevent corns from developing but if they are causing problems they can be removed by a Chiropodist.\n\nRegards, Chris. (Medical Student, University of Salford)
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis \n\nMeaning? \n\nA lung disease.
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Osteochondritis dissecans occur most commonly in the knees and elbows.  What happens is a tiny bit of the bone inside the joint, just under the cartilage (subchondral) dies off (necrosis).  This usually causes some of this dying bone or some of the cartilage over it to come loose inside the joint.  This free fragment, sometimes called a "joint mouse" can cause further inflammation or irritation in the joint if it gets stuck between moving parts of the joint.  \n\nIt occurs most commonly in boys from 10 to 20 years old who are athletically active.  However, it is occurring in more athletic girls as well.  Decreasing the inflammation and rest from athletics for 6 to 8 weeks helps to get rid of the pain.  If it happens in adults, there is usually more joint damage, so surgery to remove free fragments and to clean up the joint surfaces is sometimes needed.\n\nNatural treatment options would include joint support with glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin sulfate.  This will help to decrease inflammation and to build up the cartillage.  Also, proper mechanics for whatever athletic activity is needed to decrease stress on the joint.
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It is a metabolic disease causing slow growth, enlarged liver, gout, kidney failure and chronic low blood sugar.  New treatments have greatly imporved the outcome for people with this disease.  With early diagnosis and treatment people who have it now live to adulthood.\n\nThe websites attached should help you.
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It's cool;\n\nDystrophic calcification is the mineralization of soft tissue without a systemic mineral imbalance. This occurs as a reaction to tissue damage, including as a consequence of medical device implantation.
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The word pneumono­ultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, also spelled pneumono­ultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­koniosis, is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica or quartz dust." At 45 letters (a p45 word for logologists) [citation needed], it is certainly the longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English, Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary (multiple editions)