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Gall stone surgery or Cholecystectomy is a surgical procedure wherein the gall bladder and gall stones are removed together.

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Medication and Prevention of Hypertension

Hypertension is also known as high blood pressure which is a medical condition in which a person?s blood pressure in arteries in the body remains chronically elevated. Many types of hypertension are there like systemic or arterial hypertension and portal hypertension and others but the word Hypertension in general implies to systemic or arterial hypertension.

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Kenny Disease

Kenny Disease is a very rare inherited skeletal disorder involving thickening of the long bones of the body and with the abnormalities of the head.

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Papsmear

It is also called as Pap test, cervical smear. It is done for the early detection of cervical cancer. This test is done to detect the Human papilloma virus infection in the female.

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Oral rehydration therapy

It is a simple, cheap and effective treatment for dehydration due to loose stools, vomiting. It consists of solution of salts and sugars which is taken by mouth. This will provide both fluids and electrolytes.

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Screening For AIDS

HIV tests detect the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus in serum, saliva, and sometimes also urine. Mainly antibodies against the virus, viral antigens, or the viral RNA are detected by the investigations. The tests are described in terms of their sensitivity and specificity. Tests may produce false positive and false negative results depending on the method of the test and taking into consideration human errors.

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Pulmonary hypertension

Pulmonary hypertension is defined as abnormally high blood pressure in pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, or pulmonary capillaries. Pulmonary hypertension can result in heart failure with markedly decreased exercise intolerance.

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Iron deficiency anemia in children

Iron deficiency anemia is decrease in number of redness due to lack of iron. It most commonly occurs in the age of 9-24 months and it is more common in growth spurt in adolescence. It can be treated by iron supplemnts, giving iron rich foods to the child

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Aplastic Anemia

Aplastic anemia is a blood disorder in which bone marrow failure occurs and body stops producing enough new blood cells that is red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets which poses higher risk of infections and uncontrolled bleeding. A serious condition that can develop at any age, though it's most common in younger people.

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Yellow Nail Syndrome

Yellow Nail syndrome or YNS is a condition which generally consists of three symptoms like lymphedema, yellow discolored nails and Pleural Effusion. Sometimes only two features are present in some patients and even then it can be referred as Yellow Nail syndrome. More than 40% of the patients will have Bronchiectasis.

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