Exploding Head Syndrome – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
What is Exploding Head Syndrome? Exploding Head Syndrome is a rare undocumented type of parasomnia. The person having Exploding Head Syndrome will typically experience a sudden bang which is loud in their head like those heard during an explosion of a bomb or a clash of cymbals or a gun that has gone off. It features [...]
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
What is Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome? Delayed sleep phase syndrome is a health condition in which sleep is postponed by more than two hours farther than the customary bedtime. This postponement in falling asleep leads to trouble in arousing up at the preferred moment. For instance, rather than falling asleep at ten o’clock pm and getting [...]
Parry Romberg Syndrome – Pictures, Symptoms, Treatment
What is Parry Romberg Syndrome? Parry Romberg Syndrome is otherwise termed as facial hemiatrophy or progressive facial hemiatrophy or hemifacial microstomia or Romberg syndrome. It is an etiologically and clinically heterogeneous kind of syndrome. It involves the subcutaneous fat, dermis, muscle and the bone underlying it. It is rarely involves the Contralateral or ipsilateral side of [...]
Peter Pan Syndrome – Definition, Symptoms, Treatment, Causes, Test
What is Peter Pan Syndrome? Peter Pan Syndrome is a disorder in which a man is unable to grow into maturity. They grow physically as an adult but choose to grasp in their childhood in avoidance to assume responsibility like in a mature person. They are the men who stay as a boy inside. They [...]
Waardenburg Syndrome – Pictures, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
What is Waardenburg Syndrome? First discovered in 1948, Waardenburg syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant condition characterized by craniofacial or interocular anomalies, bilateral deafness (deafness on both ears), and hypopigmentation of the skin, eyes and hair. Epidemiology of Waardenburg Syndrome (WS) Waardenburg syndrome affects both males and females of all races, since this is an [...]
Smith Magenis Syndrome – Pictures, Life Expectancy and Symptoms
What is Smith Magenis Syndrome? Smith Magenis Syndrome is more famously known as the “self-huggers syndrome” or SMS. It is characterized by an tic-like involuntary movements wherein the persons crosses both arms across his or her chest or clasps his or her hands while he or she squeezes the arms in to his or her sides. [...]
Pierre Robin Syndrome – Symptoms, Causes, Treatment and Complications
What is Pierre Robin Syndrome? Pierre Robin is a congenital abnormality that is present on the face that when the baby is born, the infant has an abnormal jaw that is smaller than the normal lower jaw, a tongue that falls back into the throat that will cause an infant to have breathing difficulties. It [...]
Turner’s Syndrome – Pictures, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment and Life Expectancy
What is Turner’s Syndrome? Turner Syndrome or gonadal dysgenesis is a condition that affects females in which one of the sex chromosomes (X chromosome) is completely missing or has abnormalities. A normal female has 46 chromosomes, including 2 X-chromosomes (44XX). In Turner’s syndrome, the female patient only has one X chromosome or has an abnormality [...]
Myelodysplastic Syndrome – Life Expectancy, Prognosis, Treatment, Symptoms
What is Myelodysplastic Syndrome? Myelodysplastic syndrome is a group of hematological conditions resulting from the ineffective function or production of the myeloid blood cells. Myelodysplastic syndrome is formerly known as pre-leukemia disorder wherein the bone marrow develops progressive failure and result to cytopenias or low blood count. About 30% of patients with MDS progress to [...]
Subclavian Steal Syndrome – Symptoms, Treatment, Causes, Prevention
What is Subclavian Steal Syndrome? When there is an occlusion or stenosis in the person’s Subclavian area or at the segment located between the aortic arch’s origin and the vertebral artery’s origin, it will result to having this kind of syndrome. Also, whenever the proximal part of the Subclavian artery is obstructed, it will result [...]
