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Acquired Cardiac Dis
Test #4
Question | Answer |
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Rheumatic Fever | inflammatory disease affecting the heart, joints, CNS, and SQ tissues (Rheumatic Heart Disease) |
Kawasaki Disease | Acute systemic vasculitis or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome |
Iron Deficiency anemia | anemia caused by inadequate supply of dietary iron |
Sickle Cell Anemia | disease in which normal adult hemoglobin A is partly or completely replaced by abnormal sickled hemoglobin (Hgb S) |
B-Thalassemia | inherited blood disorder characterized by deficiencies in the rate of production of specific globin chains in the hemoglobin (anemia) |
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) | acquired hemorrhagic disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia (excessive destruction of platelets) and purpura (discololartion caused by petechiae beneath skin) |
Hemophiila | refers to a group of bleeding disorders resulting from a deficiency of the factors necessary for coagulation |