GENERAL MEDICINE & OG: PART 4

PNEUMONIA:

Pneumonia is a serious disease which affects your lungs and makes it difficult for you to breath inflammation or infection of the alveoli of the lungs of varying degrees of severity and caused by bacteria, viruses, etc.


PULMONARY INFRACTION:

A pulmonary infarction is the death of a portion of lung tissue caused by an interruption of its blood supply, most commonly due to blockage in the blood vessels supplying the lung tissue.

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GENERAL MEDICINE & OG: 2 MARKS- PART 1

ANEMIA:

  • Anemia is a medical condition in which the red blood cell count or hemoglobin is less than normal. Anemia is caused by either a decrease in production of red blood cells or hemoglobin, or an increase in loss (usually due to bleeding) or destruction of red blood cells.
  • For men, anemia is typically defined as hemoglobin level of less than 13.5 gram/100 ml and in women as hemoglobin of less than 12.0 gram/100 ml.

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