Symptomatic

Symptomatic
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Symptomatic can mean showing symptoms or concerning a symptom. Symptoms are indications of disease or injury and are usually noticed by the patient.
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Symptomatic treatment is also called palliative treatment.
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Asymptomatic means there are no symptoms. A person is asymptomatic if an illness or condition is present without recognizable symptoms.
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Presymptomatic genetic testing is used to determine whether persons who have a family history of a disease, but no current symptoms, have the gene alterations associated with the disease.
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Symptomatic treatment for arthritis includes use of heat, physical therapy, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as cox-2 inhibitors (Celebrex and Vioxx), aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen.
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Symptomatic aneurysms usually require surgical treatment to prevent complications. Antihypertensive medications may be prescribed before surgery to reduce blood pressure. Other medications may include analgesics to relieve pain.
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Asymptomatic neurosyphilis precedes symptomatic syphilis and is present in 15% of those with latent (hidden) syphilis. In this case, abnormalities may be present in the cerebrospinal fluid, but no symptoms are present.
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Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis is the diagnosis when the patient does not complain of pain or discomfort but has infection-fighting cells in his semen.
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ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION
Most persons with amebiasis have no noticeable symptoms.
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Asymptomatic patients can be monitored for evidence of disease progression without immediate need for chemotherapy.
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ASYMPTOMATIC: Without symptoms. In HIV/AIDS literature, this term is often used to describe someone who has a positive reaction to one of several tests for HIV antibodies but who shows no clinical symptoms of the disease.
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ACAS asymptomatic carotid atherosclerosis study.
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The acute, symptomatic illness often resolves without treatment in two to eight weeks. Bed rest and treatment of the symptoms are usually sufficient.
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People with symptomatic aortic regurgitation who do not have corrective surgery face progression to the severe stages of heart failure and, on average, have a life expectancy of 2 to 4 years.
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Even during the asymptomatic period, the virus is actively multiplying, infecting, and killing cells of the immune system.
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Even those who are symptomatic often mistake the symptoms for something else.
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Asymptomatic
Infection without symptoms. Someone who is asymptomatic has antibodies (for example, to HIV) but does not have any visible signs or symptoms (example, of HIV infection).
Chronic
Long-lasting and severe, opposite of Acute.
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Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT, cutaneous hepatic porphyria, or symptomatic porphyria): The most common type of porphyria.
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It is the most commonly diagnosed cause of infectious vaginal discharge; in as many as 60% of cases, the woman is asymptomatic.
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In some cases, osteoarthritis is asymptomatic (i.e., does not cause symptoms) and may be diagnosed incidentally upon x-ray. When symptoms occur, they can range from mild to severe.
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These patients are sometimes called antibody-negative asymptomatic (without symptoms) carriers, because they do not have any symptoms of AIDS and there is no detectable quantity of antibody in the blood serum.
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About 5-10% of patients who have symptomatic cervical arthritis develop myelopathy, or compression of the long tracts of the spinal cord.
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You need not be symptomatic, or even know you are infected, in order to pass the AIDS virus to someone else.
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A 1987 study involving routine examination of asymptomatic (that is, no symptoms) boxers found angle recession in 19%, with 8% having angle recession in both eyes.
Worldwide, the incidence of eye trauma is similar to that found in the United States.
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This condition, known as asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis, may be diagnosed when men are evaluated for other urological conditions such as prostate cancer or infertility.
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A drug used to reduce the amount of testosterone made in patients with advanced symptomatic prostate cancer for which no other treatment options are available. It belongs to the family of drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists.
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One study of middle-aged men and women with symptomatic osteoporosis were almost exclusively heavy smokers.
A high-sugar diet causes calcium to be excreted in the urine. Excess sodium does this also.
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ENTEROVIRUS - A Picornavirus, small, single-stranded RNA virus that can survive in sewage and chlorinated water with organic debris. Asymptomatic infection common. Epidemics of gastroenteritis are common in summer and fall.
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asymptomatic carotid stenosis, or narrowing of one of the arteries in the neck
sickle cell anemia, a blood disorder that forms abnormal red blood cells
high cholesterol levels in the blood, including total cholesterol and LDL or "bad cholesterol.
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The effect of acupuncture therapy was compared with conventional antihistaminic therapy in 45 patients belonging to the age group of 15 to 45 years (mean 28.48) of both genders suffering from allergic rhinitis. Symptomatic improvement and laboratory ...
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Urethral syndrome is the presence of symptoms of a urinary tract infection even though very few or no bacteria are found in the urine. It is also sometimes called symptomatic abacteriuria, which means having symptoms with no bacteria.
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There is no cure for Zellweger syndrome and there is no standard course of treatment. Infections are guarded against to prevent such complications as pneumonia and respiratory distress. Other treatment is symptomatic and supportive.
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two copies of the gene responsible for a hemoglobin abnormality—one from each parent. Individuals with only one copy of the gene have a much milder form of the disease called thalassemia minor or thalassemia trait and are usually asymptomatic and ...
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