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Tag: Diarrhea

  • Cystic Fibrosis

    Cystic Fibrosis

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    Dr. Taoufik

    – Cystic fibrosis is the most common autosomal recessive severe genetic disease in Caucasians. – It is due to an abnormality in CFTR (it controls the chloride channels of epithelial membranes). The .DELTA.F 508 mutation is the most common. – This modification is responsible for an anomaly of all the mucous glands in the body…

  • Chronic diarrhea

    Chronic diarrhea

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Diarrhea is a symptom which is defined in several ways, most often by the number of daily bowel movements, but also by their consistency, their volume or weight. The patient focuses mainly on the consistency of his stools and their numbers, the quantitative aspect is more difficult to assess. The volume or weight of stool…

  • Acute diarrhea

    Acute diarrhea

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Diarrhea is a common symptom, usually indicative of a mild illness and often the cause of self-medication. Statistically, there are a case of acute diarrhea per year per capita of more than 20 years. In half the cases, it causes a drop in business, but giving cause for medical consultation for only 18% of people.…

  • Acute diarrhea

    Acute diarrhea

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    Dr. Taoufik

    – Acute diarrhea is defined as the transmission of at least 3 loose stools per day for less than 2 weeks. – Clinically, there are 2 types of acute diarrhea: • simple diarrhea without blood, caused by viruses in 60% of cases (rotavirus, enterovirus), bacteria (Vibrio cholerae, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Salmonella non-typhi, Yersinia enterocolitica) or…

  • Hypokalemia

    Hypokalemia

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Hypokalemia is the electrolyte disorder most frequently encountered in clinical practice, including hospital.Hypokalemia below 3.5 mmol / L was found in about 20% of hospitalized patients. Most of the time, a simple interrogation in search of iatrogenic causes makes it possible to trace the etiology, but there are sometimes more complex situations of unexplained chronic…

  • Escherichia Coli

    Escherichia Coli

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Isolated for the first time by Escherich in 1885, is the Escherichia coli bacterial species that has been most studied by fundamentalists for physiology and genetics work. This bacterium has long been known as commensal and pathogenic digestive tube to the urinary tract. In recent decades, the role of certain categories of E. coli in…