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It is also known as "Hers' disease", after Henri G. Hers, who characterized it in 1959. [3] The scope of GSD VI now also includes glycogen storage disease type VIII, [2] IX [2] (caused by phosphorylase b kinase deficiency) and X [2] (deficiency protein kinase A).
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
Tallerman–Sheffield treatment: Lewis A. Tallerman and Evelyn Sheffield: Rheumatism, pain Treatment of pain through baking patients alive Wagner–Jauregg treatment: Julius Wagner Jauregg: Infectious diseases: Treatment of general paresis of the insane by infecting the patient with malaria: Wagner–Jauregg therapy at Who Named It? Williams ...
List of endocrine diseases; List of eponymous diseases; List of eye diseases and disorders; List of intestinal diseases; List of infectious diseases; List of human disease case fatality rates; List of notifiable diseases - diseases that should be reported to public health services, e.g., hospitals. Lists of plant diseases; List of pollution ...
Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things). In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held a conference that discussed the naming of diseases and conditions.
The distribution of the therapeutic enzyme in the body (biodistribution) after these IV infusions is not uniform. [10] The enzyme in less available to certain areas in the body, like the bones, lungs, brain. For this reason, many symptoms of lysosomal storage diseases remain untreated by ERT, especially neurological symptoms. [10]
This article provides a list of autoimmune diseases. These conditions, where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own cells, affect a range of organs and systems within the body. Each disorder is listed with the primary organ or body part that it affects and the associated autoantibodies that are typically found in people diagnosed ...
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (5 C) Eye diseases (16 C, 202 P) F. Foot diseases (1 C, 37 P) G. Conditions diagnosed by stool test (2 C, 41 P)