Syndromes

What is the Tolosa-Hunt syndrome? Causes, symptoms, treatment

The syndrome of the Tholos-Hunt syndrome (upper eye socket syndrome, painful ophthalmoplegia, periarteritis of the carotid siphon) is a fairly rare disease, which combines a pronounced pain syndrome in the peri-ocular area and orbit with the dysfunction of one or more cranial nerves. Content 1Causes of the disease 2Clinical signs 3Diagnostics 4Treatment Causes of the disease The reasons for this state are not fully understood and debatable (discussed by scientists). There is a fairly...

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Migraine: symptoms and treatment (tablets and non-drug methods)

Migraine... This word is associated in most people with an unbearable headache. However, it should be understood that migraine is an independent neurological disease, the headache in which is the main, but not the only symptom. In addition to the headache, migraine is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, intolerance of loud sounds and bright light, smells, and in some cases, and a number of other neurological symptoms. It is not yet possible to fully cure migraines. There are methods of treatme...

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Ménière's disease: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

Ménière's disease is a disease of the inner ear. Is manifested by attacks of dizziness, nausea, vomiting, noise in the ears and progressive hearing loss. For the diagnosis of this pathology, otoscopy (examination of the ear canal and drum membranes), the study of the function of the hearing and the vestibular analyzer by various methods, the MRI of the head the brain. Treatment of the disease is first carried out using conservative methods. If this is not enough, then surgical correction an...

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Hydrocephalus in children: symptoms and treatment

Hydrocephalus in children is a brain disease that develops as a result of excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (cerebrospinal fluid) in the brain ventricles and / or subarachnoid space. Since the child's brain continues its formation after birth, the development of hydrocephalus can stop this process, leading to severe consequences in the form of a backlog in physical and neuropsychic development. Sometimes the consequences of the transferred hydrocephalus in childhood accompany a p...

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Sleep paralysis: causes, signs, principles of diagnosis and treatment

Sleep paralysis is one of the sleep disorders, the essence of which lies in the person's awareness of the impossibility to make movement and make a sound. For many centuries, people have tried to explain the nature of this state, which led to the emergence a huge number of mystical theories about witches and sorcerers, night demons and extraterrestrial abductors. To date, scientists have thoroughly studied the problem of sleep paralysis and can provide a reasonable explanation for the origi...

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Tension headache: symptoms and treatment

Tension headache (HDN) is one of the most common types of headache in the world. Despite the fact that such a wording is not quite familiar to most people, nevertheless, the prevalence of this disease is very high. According to statistics, up to 70% of the world's population in life experience this diagnosis to some extent. So what is this - a tension headache? What is it manifested, what are its symptoms? How is it treated? Let's find out more. In the International Classification of Diseas...

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Osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine: symptoms and treatment

Osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine is a degenerative-dystrophic chronic process of affecting intervertebral discs and vertebral bodies of the thoracic spine. This disease occurs a little less often than osteochondrosis of the cervical or lumbosacral spine. However, this does not mean that it does not cause trouble to a person. The osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine is manifested, mainly, by pains in the back and chest, but it can also give pains in the heart, in the abdomen, similar to...

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Myasthenia gravis: symptoms, causes

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by a steadily progressing or recurrent course. This serious illness is registered quite often - it affects about 5-10 people out of 100 thousand, with 2/3 of the patients are women. Myasthenia gravis occurs in people aged 15-45 years, but the overwhelming majority of cases are noted in 20-30-year-olds, and occasionally children suffer from it. In this article, we will consider in more detail the causes of the onset, the ...

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Lesser chorea: causes, symptoms, treatment

Small chorea (Sydenham's chorea, rheumatic chorea, infectious chorea) is a neurological manifestation of rheumatic infection. The main symptoms of the disease are disorderly violent movements in the limbs and trunk, as well as psychoemotional changes. Small chorea affects mainly children and adolescents, sometimes there are relapses at a young age. The diagnosis of the disease is based on a combination of clinical symptoms and data from additional research methods. This article will help yo...

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Postherpetic Neuralgia: Symptoms and Treatment

Postherpetic neuralgia is the most common complication of herpes zoster. Disease, although not dangerous to human life, but very painful. Postherpetic neuralgia does not allow a person to sleep, work, causes depression and dramatically reduces the quality of life. Theoretically, it can occur after any episode of shingles, although there are some predisposing factors. Duration of the disease is different: on average it is about 12 months, but in some cases this pathology can persist for years...

  • 27-Jul-2018
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