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0.7 per 100,000 per year [ 4 ] Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), also known as flesh-eating disease, is a bacterial infection that results in the death of parts of the body's soft tissue. [ 3 ] It is a severe disease of sudden onset that spreads rapidly. [ 3 ]
Typically, symptoms are only on one side of the body. [3] Certain causes, however, may result in pain on both sides. [3] Lower back pain is sometimes present. [3] Weakness or numbness may occur in various parts of the affected leg and foot. [3] About 90% of sciatica is due to a spinal disc herniation pressing on one of the lumbar or sacral ...
0.1 to 0.8% [4] Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis from the disease spectrum of axial spondyloarthritis. [5] It is characterized by long-term inflammation of the joints of the spine, typically where the spine joins the pelvis. [2] With AS, eye and bowel problems—as well as back pain—may occur. [2]
237 million / 3.3% (2015) [ 4 ] Osteoarthritis (OA) is a type of degenerative joint disease that results from breakdown of joint cartilage and underlying bone. [ 5 ][ 6 ] It is believed to be the fourth leading cause of disability in the world, affecting 1 in 7 adults in the United States alone. [ 7 ] The most common symptoms are joint pain and ...
Hashimoto's thyroiditis, also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditisand Hashimoto's disease, is an autoimmune diseasein which the thyroid glandis gradually destroyed. [1][6]A slightly broader term is autoimmune thyroiditis, identical other than that it is also used to describe a similar condition without a goiter.
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. [ 67 ] It affects humans and other animals, notably dogs, but also occurs in cats and horses. It can affect both the larger and the smaller joints of the body. In humans, this includes the hands, wrists, feet, back, hip, and knee.
Gout (/ ɡ aʊ t / GOWT [9]) is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of pain in a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint, [4] [10] caused by the deposition of needle-like crystals of uric acid known as monosodium urate crystals. [11]
2–7 per 10,000 [ 2 ] Lupus, technically known as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in many parts of the body. [ 1 ] Symptoms vary among people and may be mild to severe. [ 1 ] Common symptoms include painful and swollen joints, fever, chest pain ...