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  2. List of childhood diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include:

  3. Neonatal infection - Wikipedia

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    Disseminated disease: 25–30% of neonatal HSV infections. Disease is defined by multi-organ involvement, including liver, lungs CNS, heart, kidney, GI tract, and skin. Neonates with disseminated HSV infection present with nonspecific symptoms of neonatal sepsis. All infants with signs of neonatal sepsis should undergo testing for HSV and ...

  4. Childhood chronic illness - Wikipedia

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    Childhood chronic illnesses can have large-scale implications for societies. One to two percent of healthcare budgets in developed countries is spent on asthma, the most common childhood chronic illness. [42] While not specific to childhood disease, the CDC reports that 90% of the U.S. national spending on healthcare goes to chronic diseases ...

  5. Childhood dementia - Wikipedia

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    More than 145 monogenic diseases have been identified that cause dementia with onset in childhood. Examples include lysosomal disorders such as Sanfilippo syndrome, Niemann-Pick disease type C and Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCLs or Batten Disease), some mitochondrial diseases such as Leigh syndrome and peroxisomal disorders such as X ...

  6. Complication (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Complications generally involve a worsening in the severity of the disease or the development of new signs, symptoms, or pathological changes that may become widespread throughout the body and affect other organ systems. Thus, complications may lead to the development of new diseases resulting from previously existing diseases.

  7. Complications of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Serious pre-existing disorders which can reduce a woman's physical ability to survive pregnancy include a range of congenital defects (that is, conditions with which the woman herself was born, for example, those of the heart or reproductive organs, some of which are listed above) and diseases acquired at any time during the woman's life.

  8. Inborn errors of metabolism - Wikipedia

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    Inborn errors of metabolism are often referred to as congenital metabolic diseases or inherited metabolic disorders. [2] Another term used to describe these disorders is "enzymopathies". This term was created following the study of biodynamic enzymology , a science based on the study of the enzymes and their products.

  9. List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of genetic disorders and if known, type of mutation and for the chromosome involved. Although the parlance "disease-causing gene" is common, it is the occurrence of an abnormality in the parents that causes the impairment to develop within the child. There are over 6,000 known genetic disorders in humans.

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