Hiv Aids Case Study

MO: LABS? PATHOLOGIST: BIOPSIES WERE POSITIVE FOR ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA. IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL STAINING FOR HER2/NEU ON THE STOMACH LESION WAS NEGATIVE.

Fisher starts off with a bit of information to warn and tell us the risks of this serious epidemic, she says, “ Two hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying. A million more are infected. Worldwide, forty million, sixty million, or a hundred million infections will be counted in the coming few years.” These factual statistics are meant to warn the nation that we are all at risk no matter our race, political party, gender, age, etc. Fisher shows us that she is a credible source on this topic because she suffers from HIV and can relate to many people out there who also suffer from this virus.

• Patient Information: -Name/Gender/Race: Valentina Palmero/Female/Caucasian -DOB: 12/4/1992 -Age: 24 years -Date of exam: 4/12/17 • Chief Complaint: Night sweats and unexplained weight loss. Patient says she has recurring episodes of extreme perspiration, soaking her clothes and bedding during sleep. Patient also notes that she has been losing weight for no apparent reason, dropping 10 pounds in a month. • History of Present Illness: The patient is a 24 year old female complaining of night sweats, unexplained weight loss as well as chronic fatigue and pruritus. Patient has noticed that her lymph nodes in her neck are swollen, but they are painless.

On further analysis, HBeAg was negative and HBV DNA was undetectable. Patient’s folic acid and vitamin B12 levels were in normal limit. Serum serologies for common viruses (HSV, Measles, mumps, enterovirus) were negative. To solve this dilemma lumber puncture done.

Street-based adolescents in Ukraine are at significant risk of contracting HIV due to involvement in injecting drug use and unprotected sex (Busza et al., 2011). A Closer Walk illustrates that AIDS was spreading more rapidly in Ukraine as high as 15 folds in three years (Bilheimer, 2003). Adolescents have contracted AIDS by injecting heroin in their bloodstream as part of brotherhood tradition. In the movie, Ruslan represents an example of how AIDS infiltrates the society, as he will inject heroin and share the same needle with Katrina his partner (Bilheimer, 2003). Ruslan indicated that 40% of his generation (aged 15–19 years) tend to share the same needle as part of the culture.

My contact information was provided. IMPRESSIONS Ms. Tocco had a recent cervical fusion in the healing phase just prior to the accident. This has impacted her recovery. She also reported having prior anxiety issues which have increased since the auto accident. The Official Disability Guidelines for Fractured ribs are 28 to 45 days, for a fractured clavicle is 38 to 53 days, for a pneumothorax is 27 to 55 days, for a cervical fusion is 76 to 140 days, low back pain with radiculopathy is 16 to 31 days, for TMJ is 10 to 24 days and for vertigo is 14 to 87 days.

Epithelial component consist of cuboidal to columnar cells without pleomorphism, nuclear atypia or mitotic figures. (34) Fig.7. Papilloma. The epithelial cells are laying on fibrovascular core showing no atypia, H & E, x100 and x400. (38)

Crohn's Disease Crohn’s Disease is a disease that causes inflammation in the small intestine. Millions of people all over the worldwide are suffering from Crohn’s Diseases. In 1932, Crohn’s Diseases was referred to as a medical illness and it was described by Dr. Crohn, Dr. Leon Ginzburg, and Dr. Gordon Oppenheimer. But it all started in 1913 by a physician named Kennedy Dalziel who had a meeting with the British Medical Association, and described his nine cases with patients who suffered from intestinal obstruction. One day with a close examination of the inflamed bowel of a patient, the transmural inflammation that is characteristic of the disease was clearly evident.

DOI: 4/24/2015. Patient is a 40-year-old female ophthalmic assistant who sustained a work-related injury to her low back and bilateral forearms from catching a falling cart. Per ONI entry, she was diagnosed with scoliosis, work aggravated. She is status post right shoulder arthroscopic acromioplasty and distal claviculectomy on 5/13/16.

Having watched Mary Fisher's speech at the Republican National Convention of 1992, I noticed these characteristics related to her attempts to engage her audience, her comparison between herself and other inflected with the same disease, and her response to the "rhetorical situation". Within a few weeks of the disease HIV, you will have flu-like symptoms. Then the disease is usually asymptomatic until it progresses to AIDS. The symptoms of AIDS include weight loss, fever , fatigue, and recurrent infections. There has been no cure yet found for AIDS but there is medication that can slow down the process.

The erythromycin resistance gene is carried by Tn4351. erythromycin resistance colonies were transfer to LB agar containing 200µgml-1 thrimethoprim. Non of the colonies could grow in this medium and no free vector (R751) was obtained in plasmid miniprep. This indicates that no replication of R751 occurred. Colony blot hybridization was done separately to discover if Tn4351 and/or R751 had inserted into the chromosome of F. chinesis.

The first test was Orthonitrophenylgalactophyranoside (ONPG), which tests for lactose fermentation, and my result was colorless so it was negative. Next was Arginine Dihydrolase (ADH), and my result was yellow /orange so it was negative. My results for Lysine Decarboxylase (LDC) were yellow/orange, which told me my unknown was negative.

Unknown #10 produced no identifiable macroscopic characteristics as a broth, so the first step was to Gram stain a loopful to determine the microscopic characteristics. Gram staining not only helped identify Unknown #10’s microscopic morphology but it also helped ensure the specimen was a pure culture—no other bacteria were visible when Unknown #10 was Gram stained and observed under the microscope. Unknown #10’s key microscopic morphology was that it was a very small, Gram negative bacillus. Though bacilli can possibly form endospores, no empty white centers were visible which suggested that Unknown #10 was not an endospore forming bacteria. No quick endospore stain was performed to validate this assumption since only one assigned organism was endospore forming and unlike Unknown #10, that organism was Gram positive.

His handlers went under the names of “Kate,” “Toni,” “Sara,” and “Sue.” They found bin Laden in Abbottabad. Shakil assembled a team of nurses and canvassed the area around the compound for a hepatitis B vaccination program. The team sought for women between the ages of 15 to 45 to sweet-talk them into taking the needle.

In the book one of the main points of the book was when Henrietta got diagnosed with cervical cancer. this is one of the main Contributing points of the story. The cervical cancer shows signs of unusual behavior of Henrietta cells because as stated by (Rebecca Skloot, 2000, p. 17) " Doctor Jones has seen thousands of cervical cancer lesions, but Henrietta 's was shiny, purple, and so delicate it bled when touch." As time went on Henrietta received her pulmonary results that stated (Rebecca Skloot, 2000, p. 27), " Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix Stage 1." When Henrietta arrived at Hopkins University for cervical cancer there was a nationwide debate going on about the types of cervical cancer, there was three key people of the debate that was Doctor Jones, his boss, and Richard Wesley Telinde.