List Diseases – P
Phlebothrombosis of the lower extremities occurs in patients with severe general diseases, fractures.
According to VT Palchun et al. (1977), sigmoid and transverse sinuses are most commonly affected (79%), then the jugular vein bulb (12.5%), the remaining cases occur in cavernous and stony sinuses.
The catecholamine crisis is a life-threatening emergency. It develops mainly with pheochromocytoma (chromaffinoma), a hormone-producing tumor of chromaffin tissue.
Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine-secreting tumor of chromaffin cells, typically located in the adrenal gland. Causes permanent or paroxysmal hypertension. Diagnosis is based on measuring the products of catecholamines in the blood or urine. Visualization, especially CT or MRI, helps to localize tumors. Treatment is to remove the tumor as much as possible.
Phenylketonuria is a clinical syndrome that includes mental retardation with cognitive and behavioral disorders that are caused by an increase in the level of phenylalanine in the blood. The primary cause is insufficient activity of phenylalanine hydroxylase. The diagnosis is based on the detection of a high level of phenylalanine and a normal or low level of tyrosine.
Hyperal abscess (retropharyngeal abscess, posterior pharyngeal abscess) - purulent inflammation of the lymph nodes and loose fiber between the fascia of the pharyngeal musculature and the pre-invertebrate fascia.
This disease has long been part of the group of pharyngomycosis, having many similarities with these common diseases of the pharynx and oral cavity. Actually, however, it stands alone as an etiology and pathogenesis, and only in 1951 the Polish doctor J. Baldenwiecki described it as an independent chronic nosological form with clearly defined symptoms.
Symptoms of pharyngoconjunctival fever are variable: it can manifest primarily catarrh of the upper respiratory tract (acute rhinitis, acute diffuse catarrhal pharyngitis, acute laryngitis and tracheitis), conjunctivitis (catarrhal, follicular, membranous), keratoconjunctivitis, pharyngoconjunctivitis fever
Pharyngitis (Latin pharyngitis) (pharyngal catarrh) - acute or chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane and lymphoid tissue of the pharynx. According to the international classification of diseases, pharyngitis is isolated from tonsillitis, however, the unifying term "tonsillopharyngitis", which takes into account a combination of these two pathological states, is often used in the literature.
Peyronie's disease, or the so-called fibroplastic penis inducing, is the fibrosis of the unexplained etiology of the penis's gallbladder. This disease was described in 1743 by the French doctor Franzois Peyrony.
In the mid-80s in a number of regions of Russia among adolescents of older age (16-17 years) there were cases of using a homemade drug that was called "shirka" in the slang of drug addicts. It contains about 40% α-iodine-pervitin (iodine is used in the manufacturing process).
Pertussis is an acute infectious disease with an airborne droplet mechanism, a peculiar convulsive paroxysmal cough and a cyclical lingering course.
Pertussis, despite the fact that this disease is considered a problem of many years ago, continues to meet periodically in clinical practice, most often in pediatrics. This is an infectious disease, which, as a rule, is acute, cyclic, characterized by specific symptoms.
Personality disorders are encompassing all spheres of life and stable behavioral features that cause pronounced distress and disruption of functioning. There are 10 separate personality disorders that are grouped into three clusters.
Persistent pulmonary hypertension of newborns is a persistence or return to the state of constriction of the arterioles of the lungs, which causes a significant decrease in blood flow in the lungs and the right venting of the blood. Symptoms and signs include tachypnea, the entrainment of malleable areas of the chest and pronounced cyanosis or a decrease in oxygen saturation that do not respond to oxygen therapy. The diagnosis is based on anamnesis, examination, radiography of the chest and response to the oxygen subsidy.
In modern psychiatry, persecution mania or persecution syndrome is considered one of the subtypes of delusional (paranoid) disorder, which consists in the existence of a false belief in a person that others - either specific people or vague "they" - constantly monitor him and seek to harm in any way .
Peritonitis is characterized by severe general symptoms, including endogenous intoxication and multiple organ failure. Mortality in peritonitis was always one of the highest and reached 55-90% in postoperative surgical peritonitis.
This form of the disease of the ear maze was first described by P. Menier in 1848 by a young woman who, traveling in a stagecoach in winter, suddenly became deaf in both ears, she also had dizziness and vomiting.
Peripheral uveitis isolated in a separate nosological group in 1967. Primary inflammatory focus is localized in the flat part of the vitreous and the peripheral part of the choroid in the form of perivascular in the retina.
Peripheral paralysis is the most common sign of acute poliomyelitis.