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A medical triad is a group of three signs or symptoms, the result of injury to three organs, which characterise a specific medical condition. The appearance of all three signs conjoined together in another patient, points to that the patient has the same medical condition, or diagnosis.
Charcot's cholangitis triad is the combination of jaundice; fever, usually with rigors; and right upper quadrant abdominal pain. It occurs as a result of ascending cholangitis (an infection of the bile duct in the liver). When the presentation also includes low blood pressure and mental status changes, it is known as Reynolds' pentad. [1]
Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
Bile duct obstruction, which is usually present in acute cholangitis, is generally due to gallstones. 10–30% of cases, however, are due to other causes such as benign stricturing (narrowing of the bile duct without an underlying tumor), postoperative damage or an altered structure of the bile ducts such as narrowing at the site of an anastomosis (surgical connection), various tumors (cancer ...
Reynolds' pentad is a collection of signs and symptoms consistent with obstructive ascending cholangitis, a serious infection of the biliary tract.It is a combination of Charcot's triad (right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, and fever) with shock (low blood pressure, tachycardia) and an altered mental status. [1]
heart failure Heart failure, enlarged esophagus, enlarged colon: Charcot's triad: Jean-Martin Charcot: surgery: ascending cholangitis: jaundice, fever and chills, RUQ pain Charcot's triad: Jean-Martin Charcot: neurology: multiple sclerosis: nystagmus, intention tremor, staccato speech Charcot–Leyden crystals: Jean-Martin Charcot, Ernst Viktor ...
Charcot is known as "the founder of modern neurology", [4] and his name has been associated with at least 15 medical eponyms, including various conditions sometimes referred to as Charcot diseases. [2] Charcot has been referred to as "the father of French neurology and one of the world's pioneers of neurology". [5]
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, a form of peroneal muscular atrophy; Charcot–Bouchard aneurysms; Charcot–Leyden crystals; Charcot's cholangitis triad of symptoms of ascending cholangitis; Charcot's neurologic triad of symptoms of multiple sclerosis; Some anterolateral central arteries in the brain are known as Charcot's artery