This means she has two copies of a gene that codes for an enzyme involved in glycogen storage; one copy is healthy, the other is defective. She can pass along either copy to her offspring with equal probability. (If the father is also a carrier, their offspring has a 25% chance of inheriting the disease, and a 50% chance of becoming a carrier.)

It means that the disease is caused by a malfunctioning of the immune system of the body - the very system which also protects us from such unpleasant things as bacteria and cancer cells. The immune system works by producing antibodies (also known as immunoglobulins or lymphocytes) which attack and destroy many bad elements in the body, such as virus, bacteria, etc.. The problem is that sometimes this good defense system gets confused and starts attacking good cells.

In 1983 Dr Graham Hughes and his colleagues described a condition - often known as "sticky blood" or Antiphospholipid Syndrome, in which there was a danger of thrombosis. Patients with the syndrome were at risk, both from vein thrombosis (including DVT's), and in some, more dangerous arterial thrombosis, including a risk of strokes and heart attacks.

A malfunction in the immune system is certainly a part of Crohn's disease. This may be an inability to "turn off" the immune system after it "turns on" for an appropriate reason. Or, the immune system may "turn on" for the wrong reason. Immunosuppressive medications used to keep individuals from rejecting transplanted organs have been shown to be effective in treating Crohn's disease. These factors have led many researchers to characterize Crohn's disease as autoimmune.

There is certainly a malfunction in the immune system that takes place in ulcerative colitis. However, immunosuppressive medications used to keep individuals from rejecting transplanted organs have shown less effectiveness in treating ulcerative colitis than in treating Crohn's disease.

Dr. Leo Kanner first described autism as a specific condition in a paper published in 1943. A year later in 1944 an Austrian pediatrician, Hans Asperger, published another paper that first described a similar condition that later became known as Asperger Syndrome. These landmark papers were the first attempts to explain autism and Asperger’s.

EMS is described as being autoimmune-mediated or by some as autoimmune. It definitely is a disease that involves autoimmunity.

Conventional wisdom believes that Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease in which the body's defense system responds to a "false alarm" and attacks the joints. Different opinions center on which part of the joint is involved. Some believe that the synovium is attacked. Others argue that the collagen is assaulted. None of the argument really matters because the cause of the disease remains unknown to researchers.

It works by playing a recorded narration, explaining what's happening on screen - during gaps in the dialogue - through personal headphones. The normal film soundtrack comes through the cinemas surround sound speakers in the usual way, so Audio description Most of our screens have either an infra-red or hearing loop system. Please click here to check the facilities at your local ODEON or ABC.

Literally it means immune activity directed against the self. The immune system fights the body itself (Auto=self). In autoimmune diseases, the immune system makes a mistake and reacts to the body's own tissues.

An autoimmune disease causes the body to attack itself. Some autoimmune diseases include lupus, multiple sclerosis and Celiac Disease.

Once a brain tumor biopsy is examined by a pathologist, the tumor is categorized, or graded, based on its cell structure and rate of growth. There are different grading systems, but one that is commonly used has four grades. Grade I tumors are slow growing, with cells that are near-normal in appearance and are not malignant. Tumors with cells that are slightly abnormal are classified as Grade II. Grade III tumors grow quickly, contain abnormal cells, and spread to surrounding tissue.

The stage of the cancer is how the medical community designates the extent of a cancer in the body. Staging is usually based on the size of the tumor, whether lymph nodes contain cancer, and whether the cancer has spread from the original site to other parts of the body. Knowing the stage helps the doctor form a treatment plan.

The name of the long QT syndrome refers to the QT-interval measured on the electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG for the German term "Elektrokardiogramm"). Your specialist may refer to long QT syndrome as Romano-Ward syndrome or Jervell, Lange-Nielsen syndrome (see point 3).

In Autoimmune diseases, a person's immune system reacts against the body's own organs or tissues. Vitiligo is found to be more common in people with certain autoimmune diseases.

Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED) is a poorly understood syndrome of potentially reversible progressive sensorineural hearing loss with or without dizziness. The classic clinical presentation of this disease is with bilateral fluctuating progressive sensorineural hearing loss occurring over several months. Tinnitus (noises in the ear) and aural fullness, "pressure", may also occur as well as dizziness or vertigo.

Autoimmune diseases are those conditions in which the immune system attacks its own body — it has lost the ability to differentiate between self and non-self. Examples of autoimmune diseases are rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and Crohn’s Disease. If the problem is serious, doctors will prescribe immunosuppressant drugs in order to weaken the severity of this self-attack.

In the 1960's, autopsies of adults with DS showed that after about age 30 years, they all have the characteristic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles associated with Alzheimer disease. From that finding, it was assumed that all adults with DS would eventually get Alzheimer dementia if they lived long enough.

Many patients fear that when they start dialysis they will only live a short time. Your life expectancy depends on many factors and you should talk with your doctor. The more you learn how to manage your kidney failure, the better you will feel.

A sour horse is a horse that no longer wishes to do what it is supposed to do. A horse can be described as "racetrack sour", it no longer enjoys being around the racetrack. The only solution is to give the horse some time away from the environment from which it is sour.