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If we translate the name "azotemia" from Latin, it literally means "nitrogen in the bloodstream." Sometimes this condition is called uremia - that is, "urine in the bloodstream", but the concepts are not exactly the same: azotemia is usually the basis of uremia.

Axillary lymphadenitis, what is it, what are its main symptoms and causes? Purulent inflammation of the lymph nodes, localized directly in the axillary region and causes axillary lymphadenitis.
Avian influenza is an acute zoonotic infectious disease with predominantly fecal-oral mechanism of transmission of the pathogen. It is characterized by a pronounced febrile-intoxication syndrome, lung damage with the development of respiratory distress syndrome and high lethality.
Following the discovery of the molecular basis of the X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome, descriptions of male and female patients with normal expression of CD40L appeared, increased sensitivity to bacterial, but not opportunistic infections, and in some families - with autosomal recessive inheritance. In 2000, Revy ssoavt. Published the results of a study of this group of patients with hyper-IgM syndrome, who found a mutation in the gene coding for the activation-inducible cytidine deaminase (AICDA).

Autophobia is a medical term that describes such a mental disorder as the fear of being alone. Other possible names for this disorder are isolophobia, eremophobia, monophobia. We are talking about the fear of being alone, not having a healthy and permanent relationship, losing loved ones.

Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) is a disease that is based on birth defects of Fas-mediated apoptosis. It was described in 1995, but since the 1960s, a disease with a similar phenotype was known as the CanaLe-Smith syndrome.

Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic hepatitis of unknown etiology, in the pathogenesis of which the leading role is played by autoimmune mechanisms. The disease is more common in women (ratio of men and women with autoimmune hepatitis 1: 3), the most commonly affected age is 10-30 years.
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia is caused by antibodies that interact with erythrocytes at a temperature of 37 ° C (hemolytic anemia with thermal antibodies) or a temperature of <37 ° C (hemolytic anemia with Cold agglutinins).
Autoimmune enteropathy is a persistent protein-losing diarrhea accompanied by autoantibody production, a sign of active autoimmune T-cell inflammation. Morphologically accompanied by atrophy of villi and massive mononuclear infiltration of the lamina propria of the small intestine mucosa.
Autoimmune disorders occur in women 5 times more often than in men, and reach their maximum in the reproductive age. Thus, these disorders are commonly found in pregnant women.
In autoimmune conditions, antibodies to endogenous antigens are produced.
In recent years, there has been an increase in the incidence, which is obviously associated with increased stimulation of the immune system with newly created artificial antigens, which the human body did not have contact with during photogenesis.

Autism is a general developmental disorder characterized by a violation of social interaction and communication, repetitive or stereotyped behavior, uneven mental development, often with mental retardation. Symptoms occur in the first years of life.

Elderly hearing loss, or presbybicusis, along with presbyopia, is the most common manifestation of involutional processes in an aging organism, manifested in the withering of all its functions and, above all, metabolic processes in the nervous system.
The terms "attention deficiency with hyperactivity" and "developmental disorders" rather describe the clinical phenomenon rather than the name of independent diseases. Many efforts have been made to separate separate nosological units with specific etiology and pathogenesis within these states.
The states of permanent or periodic immobility, "congealing", akinesia, aspontaneity, areactivity of different origin refer to the so-called negative neurological symptoms.

Atropine is widely used in medicine alone in the form of sulphate and is part of many complex drugs - anti-asthma (Solutan, Franol), antispasmodics (Besalol, Spasmoveralgin) and some others. It is used in ophthalmology and psychiatry. 

Many dermatologists suggest an infectious theory of skin atrophy of idiopathic progressing. The efficacy of penicillin, the development of the disease after a tick bite, the positive inoculations of pathological material from patients with healthy confirm the infectious nature of dermatosis
Atrophy of the optic nerve is clinically a combination of signs: impairment of visual functions (reduced visual acuity and development of visual field defects) and blurred vision of the optic nerve.
Atrophy of the gastric mucosa (in the medical literature - atrophic gastritis) is a kind of chronic gastritis, manifested in progressive pathological changes in the gastric mucosa and the destruction of glands that produce gastric juice.

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