Diana Quiroz Ms Rodriguez Honors English IV period 1 February 5‚ 2014 Organ Transplants: Kidney and Pancreas It is six o’clock on a cool Wednesday night at UMC hospital in Tucson‚ Arizona. The teams of doctors are in the operating room preparing for a surgery that will change the life of one person forever. This wait is finally over‚ prayers have been answered. This person is about to receive new organs; it will be as if they will be born again. This person is given what most people
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Case presentation Urology rotation 5th year medicine Tuesday‚ June 10‚ 2014 Presented to : Dr. Ali Salloum Done by: Ibtissam Jarjour Madiha Rayed Rayan Mouhamad Hanine Al Arab Fatima Jaafar Akram kahil Personal History: Name: Jamil EL Sayyed Age: 74 years Marital status: married Residence: Blood group : B positive Smoker 2 packs per day. Date of admission : 22 / 4/ 2014 Chief complaints: Gross hematuria of 1 day duration Present history: This is the case of 74 year
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First pass metabolism. Pharmacology is the study of the effects drugs have and how they exert them. Drugs can be administered enteral or parenteral. [1] Enteral refers to any form of administration that involves the alimentary tract. The four enteral routes of administration include the mouth‚ sublingual‚ buccal and rectal. Parenteral refers to routes of administration outside of or beside of the alimentary tract. The parenteral route includes intravascular (IV)‚ Intramuscular (IM) and subcutaneous
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product in this process and is used in the digestive process. The Kidneys The role of the kidneys is to remove nitrogenous wastes from the body. Nitrogenous means that it is rich in the element nitrogen. Nitrogen in high concentrations in the body can cause several problems such as joint pain‚ strokes or heart attacks. The kidney is made up three parts: the renal cortex‚ the renal medulla and the renal pelvis. All mammals have two kidneys. The kidney’s primary function is to regulate various body fluids
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reflux is a condition in which urine from the bladder goes back into the tubes that connect the kidneys to the bladder (ureters). The bladder is a hollow organ in the lower part of the abdomen. It stores urine after the urine is made by the kidneys. In severe cases of vesicoureteral reflux‚ urine may flow back through the ureters and into the kidneys. Vesicoureteral reflux can affect one or both kidneys and ureters. Vesicoureteral reflux can range from mild to severe. Mild cases usually do not cause
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Every single year 4‚000 people die waiting to receive a kidney alone. Thousands more die waiting on the organ donor list. It is the desperate need to survive that has caused people to do immeasurable things‚ even if it’s illegal. The organ sales on the black market is a very real thing. Obviously‚ there is a great need for organs‚ so is the global market for organ sales the answer? This is a complicated and delicate question to pose because many believe that a for profit system cannot exist without
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Bishal Thpa Dr. Thomas Pfister English 1102-17 5 December 2013 Legalization of Organ Selling Deborah Kotz’s article on “Women can Sell their Eggs‚ so why not Kidney” is basically about the legalization of organ transplantation. In this article she argues if women can sell their eggs then why not kidneys? She wants organ selling to be legalized. She also has mentioned other writers like Sally Satel who also thinks organ selling should be legalized (p. 430)... Organ donations will
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URINARY SYSTEM This system consists of the KIDNEYS‚ URETERS‚ URETHRA‚ and BLADDER. Not many structures‚ but very important. Functions: 1. Regulate electrolytes (K‚ Na‚ etc) in body 2. Regulate pH in blood 3. Regulate blood pressure 4. Regulate blood volume 5. Removing metabolic wastes (chemicals produces by chemical reactions in the body are excreted). This is the least important of the kidney’s functions. You can survive for a few weeks without excreting waste products in the urine‚ but hour
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Aim: To find out if there is a relationship between fluid intake and urine output‚ by measuring my daily fluid intakes and urine outputs. Hypothesis: The volume of urine I will produce will be at least half of the volume of fluids I will drink‚ due to the body’s ability to carry out a water balance just as one would have on oxygen‚ carbon dioxide to maintain a healthy and working body. For example if I drink 1000cm3 of fluids then the expected amount of urine I should produce would be around 4000
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Chapter 28 Cont. Evolution of the Kidney in Vertebrates * Vertebrates have 2 kidneys * On the back of the abdominal cavity * Kidney has a * Renal capsule * Cortex (towards the outside) * Medulla (towards the central region) * Structure and function of kidneys can differ depending animal type and developmental stage * 3 kinds of vertebrate kidneys * Pronephros * Adult hagfish & (embryos fish and amphibians)
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