See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Wegener, Friedrich(medicine)
wegener's granulomatosis(medicine)
Wegener granulomatosis(medicine)
Wegener's theory(dictionary)
Wegener's granulomatosis(dictionary)
Wegener's granulomatosis(health)
Wegener, Alfred (Lothar)(encyclopedia)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
non-event(dictionary)

Wegener granulomatosis (medicine) and Event (health)


Wegener granulomatosis (medicine)


wegener granulomatosis
<radiology> Sinuses, mucoperiosteal thickening, may destroy bone and cartilage, lungs, necrotizing granulomata, multiple round nodules (2 mm - 9 cm), may cavitate, kidneys, glomerulonephritis most likely to be necrosis of capillary tuft, generalised necrotizing vasculitis of arteries and veins, auto-immune: basement membrane, almost always involves lungs, M = F, 30-50 years of age, symptoms: cough, haemoptysis, fever, wt loss, multiple respecially infections, treatment: cytotoxins, immunosuppression


Event (health)


A set of outcomes. Cardiovascular events might include a heart attack and gastrointestinal events a GI bleed. The use of the term "event" in medicine comes from probability theory.