Heart failure (HF) , often referred to as chronic heart failure (CHF), occurs when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs. The terms congestive heart failure (CHF) or congestive cardiac failure (CCF) are often used interchangeably with chronic heart failure. * Other names: ** Left-sided heart failure - Heart is unable to pump enough oxygen-rich ...
The Mitral Valve, located between the left heart chambers, left atrium and left ventricle, doesn’t work properly. It may not be closing properly, which causes blood to leak backward to the left atrium (regurgitation), or the valve may be narrowed (stenosis). As a result, the heart does not pump enough blood out of the left ventricular chamber to supply the body with oxygen-filled blood.The hear...
A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others. Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing generally moves perpendicular to and directly into the victim's body, rather than being drawn across i...
=Renal (Kidney) Failure= Renal failure, also known as kidney failure or renal insufficiency , is a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter waste products from the blood .The two main forms are acute kidney injury , which is often reversible with adequate treatment, and chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is often not reversible. In both cases, there is usually an underl...
=Respiratory failure= Project tags: Respiratory failure, cause of death, hypoxemia, hypercapnia, Respiratory failure is a syndrome in which the respiratory system fails in one or both of its gas exchange functions: oxygenation and carbon dioxide elimination. In practice, it may be classified as either hypoxemic or hypercapnic. The resulting levels of arterial oxygen, carbon dioxide or both cann...
A fall is defined as an event which results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level . Fall-related injuries may be fatal or non-fatal though most are non-fatal. Accidental falling is the second leading cause of accidental death worldwide and is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters ...
No profiles please. Create projects and index them on this page in the methods section. Add profiles to those projects. Please feel free to add "related projects" also. ===definition===From New World Encyclopedia : Capital punishment , or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for the most serious crimes—known as capital crimes. The word "capital"...
Anemia== ==Add people who have or had anemia or their death is related to anemia.== Anemia , also spelled anaemia, is usually defined as a decrease in the amount of red blood cells (RBCs) or hemoglobin in the blood. It can also be defined as a lowered ability of the blood to carry oxygen. When anemia comes on slowly, the symptoms are often vague and may include: feeling tired, weakness, shortne...
=Bubonic Plague=Please add Geni profiles for those who died of bubonic (or the pneumonic form of) plague, except for the pandemic of 1349, the Black Death , which goes in that project. ===Fast Facts===* Also called: black death* A rare but serious bacterial infection that's transmitted by fleas.* Very rare* 5 US cases in 2014* Treatable by a medical professional* Spreads by animals or insects* ...
==Please add only those who died of old age with NO other specific cause of death. ==* (For example: The person went to sleep & didn't wake up.) Old Age refers to ages nearing or surpassing the life expectancy of human beings, and is thus the end of the human life cycle. Old age is not a definite biological stage, as the chronological age denoted as "old age" varies culturally, historically and...
Please add the profiles of people who died as a Prisoner of War. If a known cause of death, please add the person to a project for that condition also (ie, of disease or of wounds).==* See: Died in War by Disease From: * Wikipedia - Prisoner-of-war camp * Wikipedia - Prisoner of War A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or "missing-captured") is a person, wh...
Arteriosclerosis & Atherosclerosis == Arteriosclerosis & Atherosclerosis are often interchanged but are different. * Arteriosclerosis is the thickening, hardening and loss of elasticity of the walls of arteries . Unlike atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis is a sclerosis that only affects small arteries and arterioles , which carry important nutrients and blood to the body’s organs.This process gr...
Please add those who had unspecified "heart disease", coronary artery disease or coronary heart disease. Angina also would be appropriate here.== ===SEE also: Arteriosclerosis / Atherosclerosis , if the arteriosclerosis or atherosclerosis is in an area other than the coronary arteries.=== Coronary heart disease (CHD) is atherosclerosis, which is the hardening and narrowing of the arteries due t...
This is a list of people who died from accidents related to horses . Some of the listed accidents had important political and historical consequences, which are given when relevant.==celebrities==* Holbrook Blinn (1872-1928), Broadway stage star & silent screen actor, died from injuries in an accident on the grounds of his estate.* Maureen Connolly (1934-1969), tennis star, career ended in 1954...
What are Heat-Related Illnesses?=== Prolonged or intense exposure to hot temperatures can cause heat-related illnesses such as heat exhaustion, heat cramps, and heat stroke (also known as sun stroke). As your body works to cool itself under extreme or prolonged heat, blood rushes to the surface of your skin. As a result, less blood reaches your brain, muscles, and other organs. This can interfe...
People who died from Influenza (Flu)== Please add profiles for those who DIED from Influenza to this project, regardless of when. There are links to the individual Endemics/Pandemics below so you can also add them to the appropriate pandemic by date . There are also links to projects for survivors of the flu. ===To add a profile to a specific epidemic/pandemic, Click on the following links to g...
Portal to Geni Project dedicated to medically related projects NO PROFILES please - Add profiles to the projects listed below instead This is an entree to indexed medically related projects on genealogy Geni, please add yours. Feel free to add headings, sub projects & resources. Please add Related projects & tags as needed. If you don’t find a heading that fits or you have a question of...
If Leukemia was the primary cause of death, please add them to this project== Tags: Leukemia, cause of death, blood cancer, blood disease, abnormal white blood cells, acute lymphocytic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Leukemia (American English) or leukaemia (British English) /luːˈkiːmiːə/ is a group of ca...
A burn is an injury to the skin or other organic tissue primarily caused by heat or due to radiation, radioactivity, electricity, friction or contact with chemicals. * They range from minor to severe, and while serious burns can be life-threatening, any burn that causes a break in the skin can result in an infection, which can lead to sepsis.===TYPES OF BURNS=== Thermal (heat) burns occur when ...
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and as the auxiliary lethal mechanism in hangings in the event the neck does not break. Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling is practised in erotic asphyxia, in...
Thrombosis (from Ancient Greek θρόμβωσις thrómbōsis "clotting”) is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. Coronary occlusion, also called coronary thrombosis , is an obstruction or blockage within a coronary artery that hinders blood flow to some part of the heart muscle. * The coronary arteries supply the heart muscle ...
A brain tumor or intracranial neoplasm occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain. There are two main types of tumors: malignant or cancerous tumors and benign tumors. Cancerous tumors can be divided into primary tumors that start within the brain, and secondary tumors that have spread from somewhere else, known as brain metastasis tumors. All types of brain tumors may produce symptoms th...
Bleeding, also known as hemorrhaging or haemorrhaging , is blood escaping from the circulatory system. Bleeding arises due to either traumatic injury, underlying medical condition, or a combination . Bleeding can occur internally , where blood leaks from blood vessels inside the body, or externally , either through a natural opening such as the mouth, nose, ear, urethra, vagina or anus, or thro...
If the Cause of Death on the Death Certificate was “Rheumatism” or "Rheumatoid Arthritis," please add the profile to this project.== ===If Arthritis or Rheumatoid Arthritis contributed to, but was NOT the primary cause of death, please see: Rheumatoid Arthritis (Living with) in the Medical Portal under Autoimmune Diseases.=== ===If this project leads to a need for another project, please addres...
Prostate cancer , also known as carcinoma of the prostate, is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, some grow relatively quickly. The cancer cells may spread from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly the bones and lymph nodes. It may initially cause no symptoms. In later stages it can...