1-Antitrypsin: more than just deficiency

Documents Mean More than Just Paper! 1

With the advent of electronic documents, information is available in more than just its visual form |electronic information is display-independent. Though the principal mode of display is still visual, we can now produce alternative renderings of this information |we have designed a computing system, ASTER, that produces an audio view. The visual mode of communication is characterized by the sp...

Anemia after bariatric surgery: more than just iron deficiency.

Bariatric surgery for morbid obesity is rapidly gaining popularity. Restrictive and/or malabsorptive surgical interventions result in dramatic weight loss with significantly decreased obesity-related morbidity and mortality. Anemia, which may affect as many as two-thirds of these patients, is of concern and generally thought to be caused by iron deficiency. Although iron deficiency in this popu...

Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency – More Than Just an Immunodeficiency

Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency is best known as a form of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) that results from mutations in the gene encoding ADA. Affected patients present with clinical and immunological manifestations typical of a SCID. Therapies are currently available that can target these immunological disturbances and treated patients show varying degrees of clinical improvemen...

More than just vanilla.

Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: Etiology, Clinical Manifestations and More

Without the liver, we would not be able to metabolize some components of the food, drinks, and medications that we eat; there would be problems in hemostasis and we would not be able to properly digest the food that we eat, particularly fatty ones. These are only a few among the many contributions of the liver to homeostasis. However, there are also a lot of factors that can bring damage to the...