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Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease ( HD ), also known as Huntington's chorea, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease [ 7] that is mostly inherited. [ 8] The earliest symptoms are often subtle problems with mood or mental/psychiatric abilities. [ 9][ 1] A general lack of coordination and an unsteady gait often follow. [ 2]
Manner of death. In many legal jurisdictions, the manner of death is a determination, typically made by the coroner, medical examiner, police, or similar officials, and recorded as a vital statistic. Within the United States and the United Kingdom, a distinction is made between the cause of death, which is a specific disease or injury, versus ...
Pathophysiology (or physiopathology) is a branch of study, at the intersection of pathology and physiology, concerning disordered physiological processes that cause, result from, or are otherwise associated with a disease or injury. Pathology is the medical discipline that describes conditions typically observed during a disease state, whereas ...
Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS), is a term used as part of sudden unexpected death syndrome to describe sudden death because of cardiac arrest occasioned by an arrhythmia in the presence or absence of any structural heart disease on autopsy.
Autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) are a group of rare disorders caused by dysfunction of the innate immune system. These responses are characterized by periodic or chronic systemic inflammation, usually without the involvement of adaptive immunity. Autoinflammatory diseases are a separate class from autoimmune diseases; however, both are ...
Addison's disease, also known as primary adrenal insufficiency, [ 4] is a rare long-term endocrine disorder characterized by inadequate production of the steroid hormones cortisol and aldosterone by the two outer layers of the cells of the adrenal glands ( adrenal cortex ), causing adrenal insufficiency. [ 5][ 6] Symptoms generally come on ...
Iatrogenesis is the causation of a disease, a harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence. [ 1][ 2][ 3] First used in this sense in 1924, [ 1] the term was introduced to sociology in 1976 by Ivan Illich, alleging that industrialized societies impair quality of life ...
Neurogenic shock is a distributive type of shock resulting in hypotension (low blood pressure), often with bradycardia (slowed heart rate), caused by disruption of autonomic nervous system pathways. [ 1] It can occur after damage to the central nervous system, such as spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury.