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Amebiasis

amebiasis
Amebiasis Amebiasis also known as amebic dysentery is a gastrointestinal illness caused by a pseudopod-forming, nonflagellated protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica (E. histolytica) ((Shirley DT, Farr
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Leigh disease

Leigh syndrome
Leigh's disease Leigh’s disease also called Leigh syndrome, classical Leigh syndrome, subacute necrotizing encephalopathy or subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy (SNEM) is a inherited severe progressive neurodegenerative mitochondrial
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Gleason score meaning

Gleason score
Gleason Score Gleason Score also called the Gleason Sum indicates the grade or "aggressiveness" of your prostate cancer (prostate adenocarcinoma) based on how abnormal the
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Prostate Cancer

prostate-cancer
Prostate cancer Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate gland in the male reproductive system. The prostate gland makes seminal fluid that is part of
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MELAS syndrome

MELAS Syndrome
MELAS MELAS also called MELAS syndrome or MELAS disease is an acronym for Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes is a rare progressive inherited mitochondrial
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CPEO disease

CPEO
CPEO disease CPEO is an acronym for chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia and CPEO is also called progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO), is a inherited mitochondrial disorder
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What is POLG

POLG related disorders
POLG POLG also called POLG-related disorders is a group of mitochondrial genetic diseases caused by mutations in the polymerase gamma (pol γ) or PolG gene that have
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Kennedy’s syndrome

Kennedys-disease
Kennedy’s disease Kennedy's syndrome also known as Kennedy's disease, X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy or Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA),
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Potter syndrome

Potter sequence facial features
Potter’s syndrome Potter's syndrome also known as Potter syndrome, Potter sequence or oligohydramnios sequence, is a rare congenital disorder caused by kidney problems and too
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Joubert syndrome

Joubert syndrome
Joubert syndrome Joubert syndrome, also called familial aplasia of the vermis, molar tooth midbrain-hindbrain malformation, agenesis of cerebellar vermis or cerebello-oculo-renal syndrome, is a rare autosomal
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Torsades de Pointes

Torsades de Dointes
Torsades de Pointes Torsades de Pointes (TdP), which mean "twisting of the point" in French, is a type of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (fast heart rate originating
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