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Retinal detachment. Retinal detachment is a disorder of the eye in which the retina peels away from its underlying layer of support tissue. [1] Initial detachment may be localized, but without rapid treatment the entire retina may detach, leading to vision loss and blindness. It is a surgical emergency.
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system. [3] Typically, both sides of the body are involved, and the initial symptoms are changes in sensation or pain often in the back along with muscle weakness, beginning in the feet and hands, often spreading to the arms and upper body. [3]
Ophthalmology. Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC or CSCR), also known as central serous retinopathy (CSR), is an eye disease that causes visual impairment, often temporary, usually in one eye. [1][2] When the disorder is active it is characterized by leakage of fluid under the retina that has a propensity to accumulate under the central ...
Alexander the Great died of an illness that started after a night of drinking 12 pints of wine. The next morning he had generalised aches, the day after sharp abdominal pain and a fever increasingly raged. Bedridden in pain, he gradually lost the ability to move, to the point, 8 days later of just flickering his eyes or twitch his hands.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, later the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to 1945, began experiencing symptoms of a paralytic illness in 1921 when he was 39 years old. His main symptoms were fevers; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery.
The "Today" show unfolded Wednesday without co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, who is undergoing retinal detachment surgery three weeks after suffering a serious eye injury.
Treatment. Immunotherapy. [2] Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis is a rare inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system, [3] first described by Edwin Bickerstaff in 1951. [4][5] It may also affect the peripheral nervous system, and has features in common with both Miller Fisher syndrome and Guillain–Barré syndrome.
The detached retina was caused by a cancerous tumor that had wrapped around Hensley’s optic nerve. She was diagnosed with ocular melanoma that began when the freckle in the back of her eye ...