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While RSV very rarely causes severe disease in healthy adults, it can cause morbidity and mortality in the elderly and in those with underlying immune compromise or cardiopulmonary disease. Older adults have a similar presentation to younger adults but tend to have greater symptom severity with an increased risk of lower respiratory tract ...
RSV is going to have a big impact this fall and winter, says Czer Anthoney Lim, M.D., M.S., director of emergency pediatric medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City, and associate ...
When normal, the RV is about half the size of the left ventricle (LV). When strained, it can be as large as or larger than the LV. [5] An important potential finding with echo is McConnell's sign, where only the RV apex wall contracts; [7] it is specific for right heart strain and typically indicates a large PE. [8]
GBS disease Group B Streptococcal disease: GCE Glycine encephalopathy: GD Gestational diabetes: GERD Gastroesophageal reflux disease: GI Gastrointestinal: GIB Gastrointestinal bleeding: GN Glossopharyngeal neuralgia: GORD Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: GSS disease Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker disease: GT/LD Gifted and learning ...
reactive airway disease radiation absorbed dose reactive attachment disorder: Rad hys: radical hysterectomy: RAE: right atrial enlargement RAI: radioactive iodine: RAIU: thyroid reactive iodine uptake RAPD: relative afferent pupillary defect RAS: renal artery stenosis RATLH: Robotic assisted total laparoscopic hysterectomy RATVH: Radical Total ...
Greek -ῖτις (-îtis) fem. form of -ίτης (-ítēs), pertaining to, because it was used with the feminine noun νόσος (nósos, disease), thus -îtis nósos, disease of the, disease pertaining to tonsillitis-ium: structure, tissue Latin -ium, aggregation or mass of (such as tissue) pericardium
variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: VCUG: voiding cystourethrogram VD: vaginal delivery venereal disease (outdated name for sexually transmitted disease) volume of distribution: VDRF: ventilator-dependent respiratory failure: VDRL: Venereal Diseases Research Laboratory (old test for syphilis) VE: vaginal examination (manual examination) VEB ...
[medical citation needed] RVH is also associated with abdominal obesity, elevated fasting blood glucose, high systolic blood pressure, and fractional shortening of the left ventricular mid-wall. [medical citation needed] Other risk factors for RVH include smoking, sleep apnea, and strenuous activity. These increase the risk of heart and lung ...