what is 'PICKWICK SYNDROME'?
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Pickwickian syndrome is a complex of symptoms that primarily affect patients with extreme obesity. The syndrome is named after a character in a Charles Dickens novel, The Pickwick Papers, who seemed to show some of the traits of this disease.\n\nThe major health problem that occurs in patients with this disease is sleep apnea. This is caused in part by the excess amounts of fatty tissue surrounding the chest muscles. This excess fat places a strain on the heart, lungs, and diaphragm of the patient, making it difficult to breathe.
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Hello Jen K,\n\nI am not sure if you need an overview of the syndrome or something specific.\n\nSo, here's a few, and I am hoping one of them fits your needs.\nIf none of these work, please email me through my profile,\nand I will continue to work on it!\n\n[These came from MedlinePlus [ http://www.medlineplus.gov]\n[Other links are at the site...Marfan Syndrome]\n\nNational Marfan Foundation      \n     http://www.marfan.org/nmf/index.jsp\n            Good explanation/overview, with links to support \n            services, education and awareness, and a marketplace, \n            links for professionals, clinical trials, and conferences \n            and events\n\nWhat is Marfan Syndrome\n  [US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute]\n  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/mar/mar_whatis.html\n    Short overview including causes, who is at risk, diagnosis, treatments, living with, and links\n\nMarfan Syndrome (Mayo Clinic)\n    http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/marfan-syndrome/DS00540\n     Overview with  info on Signs and symptoms,Causes, Risk   \n    factors When to seek medical advice , Screening and \n   diagnosis, Complications , Treatment , Prevention , Self  \n   care ,Coping   skills \n\nGenetics Home Reference - Marfan Syndrome\n   http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=marfansyndrome\n   General info on genes responsible for this syndrome, and links\n    to treatment and additional info (for both health care \n   professionals and consumers)\n\n\nOther Web Directories that may contain good info on Marfan\nSyndrome\n--NetWellness     http://netwellness.org/\n    "highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities. "\n   Has an "Ask an expert" link \n                http://netwellness.org/healthtopics/help/aaehelp.cfm\n\n--NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)\n      http://www.noah-health.org/\n    "NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. "  Started at the NY Public libraries\n\nAlso, not everything is on the Internet!\nDon't discount libraries for books and databases (indexes) which\nmay contain full text articles not avialble on the internet.\nYour public library may have access to databases as InfoTrac,\nAcademic Search Premier, and Health Source...just ask a reference librarian to get you started.\n\nMost (if not all) public supported academic and medical libraries\nare open to "walk ins"...Call ahead to see what resources they have. Any reputable medical librarian can get you started.\nA few databases they may subscribe to included MD Consult,\nUpToDate, Access Medicine, StatRef, Medline (with some links to full text medical articles).\n\nHoping I didn't overload you....\nand at least one of the websites above is useful.\n\nJanice\npart time medical librarian at the local medical college (affiliated with a hospital)
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Well..if you're trying to clinically assess someone for this condition, you might need a bit more information.  It could be a "Freudian slip", a form of "Apraxia" or what was stated earlier "foot in mouth."
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sorry, i couldn't find anything about it on google.\nhttp://scotthortonshow.com/
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Shy-Drager Syndrome\n\nMultiple system atrophy with autonomic failure, also called Shy-Drager syndrome, is a progressive disorder of the central and autonomic nervous systems. The disorder is characterized by postural hypotension--an excessive drop in blood pressure which causes dizziness or momentary blackouts upon standing or sitting up. There are 3 types of Shy-Drager syndrome: Parkinsonian-type which may include symptoms of Parkinson's disease such as slow movement, stiff muscles, and mild tremors; cerebellar-type which may include problems such as loss of balance and the tendency to fall; and combination-type which may include symptoms of both types 1 and 2. Parkinsonian symptoms and symptoms of autonomic dysfunction such as constipation and sexual impotence in males predominate early in the course of the disease. Constipation may be unrelenting and hard to manage in some patients. Shy-Drager may be difficult to diagnose in the early stages; however, within a year of onset most patients develop postural hypotension. For the majority of patients, blood pressure is unstable--often fluctuating up and down--and causes severe headaches. Other symptoms may also develop, such as generalized weakness, double vision and/or other vision disturbances, impairment of speech, sensory changes, difficulties with breathing and swallowing, irregularities in heart beat, inability to sweat, and diarrhea.
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A syndrome of mental depression and suicidal tendencies, in which the patient complains of having lost everything: possessions, part of or entire body, often believing that he or she has died and is a walking corpse. This delusion is usually expanded to the degree that the patient might claim that he can smell his own rotting flesh and feel worms crawling through his skin. The latter phenomenon is a recurring experience of people chronically deprived of sleep or suffering amphetamine/cocaine psychosis. Paradoxically, being "dead" often gives the patient the nation of being immortal. Other megalomelancholic ideas may be present. Aetiology unknown. Seen especially in manic-depressive patients or in certain brain syndromes.
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Gerstmann's syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by four primary symptoms: a writing disability (agraphia or dysgraphia), a lack of understanding of the rules for calculation or arithmetic (acalculia or dyscalculia), an inability to distinguish right from left, and an inability to identify fingers (finger agnosia). The disorder should not be confused with Gerstmann-Strä ussler-Scheinker disease, a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
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It's spelled Guillain Barre Syndrome. Just google it and you'll get plenty of info.
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Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is an inherited disorder often characterized by varying degrees of hearing loss and changes in skin and hair pigmentation. The syndrome got its name from a Dutch eye doctor named Petrus Johannes Waardenburg who first noticed that people with differently colored eyes often had a hearing impairment. He went on to study over a thousand individuals in deaf families and found that some of them had certain physical characteristics in common. \n\nOne commonly observed characteristic of Waardenburg syndrome is two differently colored eyes. One eye is usually brown and the other blue. Sometimes, one eye has two different colors. Other individuals with Waardenburg syndrome may have unusually brilliant blue eyes. \n\nPeople with WS may also have distinctive hair coloring, such as a patch of white hair or premature gray hair as early as age 12. Other possible physical features include a wide space between the inner corners of eyes called a broad nasal root. In addition persons with WS may have low frontal hairline and their eyebrows may connect. The levels of hearing loss associated with the syndrome can vary from moderate to profound. \n\nIndividuals with Waardenburg syndrome may have some or all of the traits of the syndrome. For example, a person with WS may have a white forelock, a patch of white hair near the forehead, and no hearing impairment. Others may have white patches of skin and severe hearing impairment. The severity of the hearing impairment varies among individuals with WS as do changes in the skin and hair. \n\nOn rare occasions, WS has been associated with other conditions that are present at birth, such as intestinal disorders, elevation of the shoulder blade, and disorders of the spine. A facial abnormality, known as cleft lip and/or palate, also has been associated with WS. \nAs a genetic disorder, Waardenburg syndrome is passed down from parent to child much like hair color, blood type, or other physical traits. A child receives genetic material from each parent. Because Waardenburg syndrome is a dominant condition, a child usually inherits the syndrome from just one parent who has the malfunctioning WS gene. Actually, there is a 50/50 chance that a child of an individual with WS will also have the syndrome.
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A hiccup or hiccough (generally pronounced "hiccup" independent of the spelling) is an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm; typically this repeats several times a minute. The sudden rush of air into the lungs causes the glottis to close, creating the "hic" noise. A bout of hiccups generally resolves by itself, although many home remedies are in circulation to shorten the duration, and medication is occasionally necessary. By extension, the term "hiccup" is also used to describe a small and unrepeated aberration in an otherwise consistent pattern. The medical term is singultus.\n\nWhile many cases develop spontaneously, hiccups are known to develop often in specific situations, such as eating too quickly, taking a cold drink while eating a hot meal, eating very hot or spicy food, laughing vigorously or coughing, or drinking an excess of an alcoholic beverage. Hiccups may be caused by pressure to the phrenic nerve by other anatomical structures, or rarely by tumors.
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Prader-Willi syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized in infancy by diminished muscle tone, feeding difficulties, and failure to grow and gain weight.  You can read more here\nhttp://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/praders.htm
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Since pickles are a very complex food, there are a number of things you could be allergic to.  The best thing to do in this case is to visit an allergist.\n\nFood allergies have a tendency to be much more dangerous than contact allergies.  You may not be able to get rid of the allergy and you may find that there are other food that you need to avoid. It's better for you to get with a professional in this sort of situation.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification\n\nFloccinaucinihilipilification  is the habit of deaming everything worthless. It was first said in a commercial on BBC Four.  It also is the name of the title of the group 'panicsville'.\n\nIt is a borrowed term used by Eaton students that combines numerous synanomus Latin prefixes and suffixes.\nLatin flocci, from floccus, a wisp or piece of wool + nauci, from naucum, a trifle + nihili, from nihilum, nothing + pili, from pilus, a hair, something insignificant (all therefore having the sense of "worthless" or "nothing") + -fication.
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Tourette syndrome is an inherited neurological disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the presence of multiple motor tics and at least one phonic tic, which characteristically wax and wane.
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Wolff Parkinson White syndrome is a specific diagnosis that can only be made on an electrocardiogram.\n\nSpecifically on the ECG, a person with WPW has a shortened PR interval and delta upslurring of the QRS complex.\n\nIt usually doesn't mean a great deal but if you have WPW you are at risk of something called a re-entrant phenomenon where your pattern of heart beat becomes abnormally fast, which is dangerous.\n\nYou probably should see your doctor for more advice if you've been told to have this problem.
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arrogant, spontaneous, rash
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No there is not a cure or cause known for Pick's Disease\nSee the source for more information