List Diseases – S
This rare syndrome has not been studied enough. It is characterized by short-term attacks of one-sided pain; the duration of attacks is significantly shorter than in other forms of trigeminal autonomic cephalgia. Attacks are often accompanied by severe lacrimation and redness of the eye on the side of pain.
This phenomenon is quite common. It is interesting that most people (90% of the population) have one leg that is one centimeter smaller than the other.
Short bowel syndrome is malabsorption resulting from extensive small bowel resection. Manifestations of the disease depend on the length and function of the remaining small bowel, but diarrhea may be severe and malnutrition is common.
Shock is a collective concept denoting extreme stress tension of homeostasis regulation mechanisms under various primary endogenous and exogenous influences.
Shock is a pathological process accompanied by a progressive mismatch between oxygen supply and consumption, leading to disruption of aerobic glycolysis and a decrease in ATP formation, the deficiency of which leads to disruption of cell function. Clinically, shock is manifested by generalized circulatory disorders, most often characterized by progressive tissue perfusion insufficiency.
Shingles - a disease characterized by damage to the nervous system, skin, often observed in the spring and autumn periods. Men get sick more often than women.
The cause of lichen awl-shaped is not fully established. It is believed that it occurs due to a deficiency of vitamin A. Awl-shaped horny papules can be observed in many infectious and non-infectious dermatoses.
The causes and pathogenesis of lichen spicata have not been fully established. Most authors believe that the dermatosis is a kind of lichenoid tissue reaction to various exogenous and endogenous irritants.
Self-treatment of shingles is not recommended, as it can cause severe complications in the future. Treatment involves taking antiviral drugs and using external agents (ointments, creams).
Herpes zoster (shingles, zona) is the result of reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus from a latent state in the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord.
Shigellosis (dysentery) is an acute infectious disease of humans with an enteric mechanism of infection caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella. Clinically, the disease manifests itself as a colitis syndrome and symptoms of general intoxication, often with the development of primary neurotoxicosis.
Shigellosis (bacterial dysentery, Shigellosis, dysenterya) is an acute infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella with a fecal-oral mechanism of transmission of the pathogen and characterized by a picture of distal colitis and intoxication.
Turner syndrome (Shereshevsky-Turner syndrome, Bonnevie-Ulrich syndrome, Syndrome 45, X0) is a consequence of the complete or partial absence of one of the two sex chromosomes, phenotypically determined female sex. The diagnosis is based on clinical manifestations and confirmed by karyotype examination.
Chancroid (synonyms: third venereal disease, soft chancre, venereal ulcer) is found in countries of Africa, Asia, America. However, due to the growth of international relations, tourism, the infection may be introduced.
Sexually transmitted gastrointestinal syndromes include proctitis, proctocolitis, and enteritis. Proctitis occurs primarily in individuals who engage in anal sex, and enteritis occurs primarily in those who engage in oral-anal sex.
Diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases includes both rapid methods acquired during screening and classical methods (cultural and virological) used for the final diagnosis.
Acceptable norms of sexual behavior and relationships vary widely across cultures. Health care workers should never judge sexual behavior, even if social pressure demands it. In general, issues of normality and pathology of sexuality cannot be resolved by a health care worker.
Sexual sadism consists of intentionally causing physical or mental suffering (humiliation, fear) to one's sexual partner in order to stimulate sexual pleasure and orgasm
Treatment of sex offenders is of interest to forensic psychiatrists because they often have to deal in practice with the impact of sexual crimes on children or adults who were victims of sexual abuse in childhood.
Sexual masochism consists of a person's deliberate participation in acts in which he himself is subjected to humiliation, beating, tying up or other violence for the purpose of obtaining sexual pleasure.