The following document provides guideline related to the typhoid fever for the the Tsunami affected populations. This disease has become a serious infection since the increasinly of multi-drug-resistant straint of the caused pathogen, Salmonella typhii.
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Aplastic anemia is an immune-mediated disease where bone marrow does not produce sufficient new cells to replenish blood cells in the paradigm of the human bone marrow failure syndroms (wikipedia). Hematopoietic stem-cell compartment is the target for the immune response in the pathophysiology concept of Aplastic anemia. The following figure shows the immune destruction of hematopoiesis occured.
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Dialysis is the process of separating elements in a solution by diffusion across a semipermeable membrane (diffusive solute transport) down a concentration gradient. The herein picture shows you with simplified schematic of typical hemodialysis system in the principal process for removing the end-products of nitrogen metabolism (urea, creatinine, uric acid), and for repletion of the bicarbonate deficit of the metabolic acidosis associated with renal failure in humans.
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