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  2. Whipple's triad - Wikipedia

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    Whipple's triad is a collection of three signs (called Whipple's criteria) that suggests that a patient's symptoms result from hypoglycaemia that may indicate insulinoma. The essential conditions are symptoms of hypoglycaemia, low blood plasma glucose concentration , and relief of symptoms when plasma glucose concentration is increased.

  3. Myofascial trigger point - Wikipedia

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    Activation of trigger points may be caused by a number of factors, including acute or chronic muscle overload, activation by other trigger points (key/satellite, primary/secondary), disease, psychological distress (via muscle hypertonia), systemic inflammation, homeostatic imbalances, direct trauma to the region, collision trauma (such as a car crash which stresses many muscles and causes ...

  4. Hypoglycemia - Wikipedia

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    [3] [2] Identifying Whipple's triad in a patient helps to avoid unnecessary diagnostic testing and decreases healthcare costs. [2] In those with a history of diabetes treated with insulin, glinides, or sulfonylurea, who demonstrate Whipple's triad, it is reasonable to assume the cause of hypoglycemia is due to insulin, glinides, or sulfonylurea ...

  5. List of medical triads, tetrads, and pentads - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Whipple's disease - Wikipedia

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    Whipple's disease is a rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei.First described by George Hoyt Whipple in 1907 and commonly considered as a gastrointestinal disorder, Whipple's disease primarily causes malabsorption, but may affect any part of the human body, including the heart, brain, joints, skin, lungs and the eyes. [1]

  7. Buzzword of the Week: Bringing the 'Pain Point' - AOL

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    In its clearest interpretation, a pain point is exactly what it sounds like: an area of. For anybody who has ever seen Marathon Man or spent an afternoon in a dentist's chair, the concept of "pain ...

  8. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    epigastric pain with pressure on McBurney's point Abadie's sign: Jean Marie Charles Abadie: endocrinology: Graves' disease: levator palpebrae superioris spasm Abadie's symptom: Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie: neurology: tabes dorsalis: absence of pain on Achilles tendon pressure Abderhalden reaction: Emil Abderhalden: obstetrics: pregnancy ...

  9. Myofascial pain syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS), also known as chronic myofascial pain (CMP), is a syndrome characterized by chronic pain in multiple myofascial trigger points ("knots") and fascial (connective tissue) constrictions. It can appear in any body part.