With the advent of neurointervention services in Nepal, we are able to provide the most advanced endovascular treatment for the ailments of the blood vessels of brain without having to open the skull. This has revolutionized the treatment of the two common, yet life-threatening, neurological conditions—aneurysms and strokes. An aneurysm …
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Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Background: When the risk factors for different diseases co-occur in the same person, they work mutually to injure the body organs and systems even more than their individual additive effects. The injury can go multiplicatively rather than additively. That means their effects can be amplified. Having multiple risk factors is …
Read More »Urinary Tract Infection in Children
What causes UTI in children? Constipation: If the child has habit of holding of stool for long time and it keeps kids from delay emptying of bladder, pressure on the bladder from backed- up poop can cause urine to be trapped, resulting in urine infection. Constipated kids sometime experience poop-leak …
Read More »Winter’s WOES
The U.S. Arthritis Foundation states that while cold weather doesn’t cause arthritis, it does make pain feel more intense. Low temperatures can increase pain sensitivity, slow blood circulation, and cause muscle spasms. Hyaline cartilage covers our joints in general, providing a smooth surface for joint motion and acting as a …
Read More »Diabetes, Hypertension, and the Eyes
Diabetes mellitus is a disease that causes an higher elevation of blood glucose level than normal due to abnormality in the functioning or production of insulin by the pancreas. Diabetes affects smaller blood vessels in our body, especially in the eyes, heart, brain, and kidneys. The effect of diabetes in …
Read More »Pressure Ulcer
What is pressure ulcer? Normally, as this type of wound develops in patients who have been lying in ICU beds for a long period, or in old age, or people who have been bound to the bed or wheelchair with homecare due to their chronic debilities, it was in the …
Read More »Shoulder Dislocation
Shoulder dislocation is one of the medical emergencies. It happens when your upper arm bone (head of humerus) pops out of its socket (glenoid cavity) leading to intense pain and restricted movement of the shoulder joint. The shoulder is the body’s most flexible and unstable joint, which moves in multiple …
Read More »Prediabetes Process of Diagnosis
1. Screen 2. Assess and advice 3. Follow up 4. Evaluate Screen 1. Ask patient to take ADA risk test 2. Find out who might have risk factor 3. Be proactive in an effort to improve outcome 4. Depending upon results, invite them to be tested 5. If diagnosed with …
Read More »Scoliosis and the Schroth Method
Scoliosis is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine. Everyone’s spine naturally curves in a way that makes it appear straight when viewed from behind. Scoliosis, on the other hand, causes the spine to curve abnormally in S-or C-shape in children and teenagers. The bend may occur anywhere along the …
Read More »Hormones and Hair
Hormones have a close relationship with hair growth. They play a central role in the progression of the hair cycle. Androgens, such as testosterone, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), and androstenedione are said to be the principal regulators of normal human hair growth. There are four stages of …
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