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Symptomatic treatment, supportive care, supportive therapy, or palliative treatment is any medical therapy of a disease that only affects its symptoms, not the underlying cause. It is usually aimed at reducing the signs and symptoms for the comfort and well-being of the patient, but it also may be useful in reducing organic consequences and ...
Once the patient becomes symptomatic, treatment is almost never effective and mortality is over 99%. Rabies may also inflame the spinal cord, producing transverse myelitis.
- 59,000 per year worldwide
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Signs
A medical sign is an objective observable indication of a disease, injury, or medical condition that may be detected during a physical examination. These signs may be visible, such as a rash or bruise, or otherwise detectable such as by using a stethoscope or taking blood pressure. Medical signs, along with symptoms, help in forming a diagnosis. Some examples of signs are nail clubbing of either the fingernails or toenails, an abnormal gait, and a limbal ring a darkened ring around the iris o...
Symptoms
A symptom is something felt or experienced, such as pain or dizziness. Signs and symptoms are not mutually exclusive, for example a subjective feeling of fever can be noted as sign by using a thermometer that registers a high reading. The CDC lists various diseases by their signs and symptoms such as for measles which includes a high fever, conjunctivitis, and cough, followed a few days later by the measles rash.
Cardinal signs and symptoms
Cardinal signs and symptoms are specific even to the point of being pathognomonic. A cardinal sign or cardinal symptom can also refer to the major sign or symptom of a disease. Abnormal reflexes can indicate problems with the nervous system. Signs and symptoms are also applied to physiological states outside the context of disease, as for example when referring to the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, or the symptoms of dehydration. Sometimes a disease may be present without showing any signs...
When a disease is evidenced by symptoms it is known as symptomatic. There are many conditions including subclinical infections that display no symptoms, and these are termed asymptomatic. Signs and symptoms may be mild or severe, brief or longer-lasting when they may become reduced (remission), or then recur (relapse or recrudescence) known as a fl...
Symptomatology
A symptom (from Greek σύμπτωμα, "accident, misfortune, that which befalls", from συμπίπτω, "I befall", from συν- "together, with" and πίπτω, "I fall") is a departure from normal function or feeling. Symptomatology (also called semiology) is a branch of medicine dealing with the signs and symptoms of a disease. This study also includes the indications of a disease. It was first described as semiotics by Henry Stubbe in 1670 a term now used for the study of sign communication.[citation needed]...
Development of medical testing
A number of advances introduced mostly in the 19th century, allowed for more objective assessment by the physician in search of a diagnosis, and less need of input from the patient. During the 20th century the introduction of a wide range of imaging techniques and other testing methods such as genetic testing, clinical chemistry tests, molecular diagnostics and pathogenomicshave made a huge impact on diagnostic capability. 1. In 1761 the percussion technique for diagnosing respiratory conditi...
The recognition of signs, and noting of symptoms may lead to a diagnosis. Otherwise a physical examination may be carried out, and a medical history taken. Further diagnostic medical tests such as blood tests, scans, and biopsies, may be needed. An X-ray for example would soon be diagnostic of a suspected bone fracture. A noted significance detecte...
Hospice care is care at the end of life that emphasizes relief of symptoms and provides emotional, spiritual, and social support for a dying person and family members. The setting may be the person’s home, a hospice facility, or another institution, such as a nursing home. Hospice-type care is provided in some hospitals.
Jul 9, 2021 · 2. Causes of Sudden Death. The most prevalent cause of death in the case of SD is related to cardiovascular diseases; nevertheless, when a subject suddenly dies, and the pathologist after the post-mortem examination is not able to identify abnormalities of the cardiac anatomy, a variety of conduction abnormalities without morphological evidence visible at autopsy may be suspected.
- Francesco Sessa, Massimiliano Esposito, Giovanni Messina, Giulio Di Mizio, Nunzio Di Nunno, Monica S...
- 10.3390/healthcare9070870
- 2021
- Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Jul; 9(7): 870.
Jan 13, 2021 · All currently approved treatments for AD are “symptomatic” agents that aim to improve cognitive and behavioral symptoms without altering the underlying course of the disease [ 4 ].
Nov 8, 2017 · Symptomatic treatment vs Curative treatment: “Relief of Symptoms and Cure of Infection are different aspects of treatment”. In symptomatic infections & diseases, patients need relief of symptoms as early as possible & as a priority, although both are required in patients. It is the responsibility of the clinician to provide curative ...
