2023

Unlike astigmatism, nearsightedness, and farsightedness, presbyopia is not a refractive error. Instead, it is a physiological reduction of the accommodative amplitude and, therefore, of the maximum level of accommodation that an eye…

Coronary angioplasty is the procedure by which an obstructed blood vessel is dilated using a balloon placed where the problem arises; it is inflated to recreate the space needed for blood to flow

The Rovsing maneuver is a maneuver used in medical semiotics to investigate the presence of abdominal pain

Congenital clubfoot is a malformation of the foot that occurs from birth. Its name derives from the fact that its main characteristic is a persistent foot deformity that prevents normal standing on the ground

If it is the patient's first time performing an electrocardiogram (ECG), the rescuer, doctor, or nurse should explain to the patient - in words appropriate to his/her level of understanding - the steps and usefulness of the…

Stomach acid is essential for digestion, but sometimes acid-producing cells in the digestive system pump out too much acid

Let's talk about hip replacement, and specifically the anterior access approach: in general, this procedure relieves pain and restores mobility in people whose joints have been damaged by trauma or degenerative diseases such as hip…

Among the most common typically male problems there is certainly prostatitis, an inflammatory disease of the prostate that mainly affects men under the age of fifty

In medical semeiotics various abdominal points are known, whose tenderness on palpation and pressure is more or less indicative of appendicitis, often appendicitis (inflammation of the vermiform appendix)

The skin of the abdomen is divided into 9 regions, called abdominals: 3 median (epigastrium, peri-umbilical region and hypogastrium) and 3 lateral (hypochondrium, flank and iliac fossa)