Health

De Quervain's tendonitis (or De Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis) is an inflammation of two tendons in the wrist that make the thumb move, the long abductor and short extensor of the thumb

Episodes of recurrent fever are typical of autoinflammatory diseases such as PFAPA syndrome and should be suspected when the course is sudden and the temperature high

Echo Doppler is used to diagnose congenital heart disease, narrowing and aneurysms of blood vessels

ECMO is an extracorporeal circulation tool that can save the lives of children with severe heart or lung failure

Acebutolol is an antihypertensive beta-receptor blocker (also called 'beta-adrenergic blocker' or simply 'beta-blocker')

When it is not present from birth due to a congenital eyesight defect, impaired colour vision occurs when there is a sudden lesion in the optic pathways that may involve the optic nerve, macula, retina and choroid

Let's talk about pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum: barotrauma is tissue damage caused by a related change in gas pressure in body compartments

Sinusitis: what causes it? The paranasal sinuses are cavities located in the thickness of the skull bones, connected to the nose by small ducts (osti) which allow mucus to pass through

Eye burns can occur after thermal or chemical injuries and can cause serious complications, including permanent blindness

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare disease characterized by extensive bone growth outside of the normal skeleton that pre-empts the body’s normal responses to even minor injuries