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Pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs known as alveoli. It is usually caused by infection with viruses or bacteria and less commonly other microorganisms, certain drugs and other conditions such as autoimmune diseases. Typical signs and symptoms include a cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. Bacterial p...
Please add profiles of those who died from Nephritis. If the cause of death was Bright’s disease, please add them to: Bright’s / Kidney Disease/Failure project. Nephritis is inflammation of the kidneys and may involve the glomeruli, tubules, or interstitial tissue surrounding the glomeruli and tubules. Acute nephritis has several causes, and it can ultimately lead to kidney failure if it’s left...
=Sepsis= ===Also known as blood poisoning, septicemia=== Even though blood poisoning, septicemia and sepsis are frequently used interchangeably, there are differences. * The trend in medicine currently is to decrease the use of the terms septicemia and blood poisoning in favor of the terms sepsis or septic, because sepsis is defined most concisely. Blood Poisoning: occurs when bacteria are in t...
Died from Erysipelas== Tags: St Anthony’s fire, skin infection, infection, cause of death, Erysipelas is a bacterial skin infection involving the upper dermis that characteristically extends into the superficial cutaneous lymphatics. It is a tender, intensely erythematous, indurated plaque with a sharply demarcated border. Its well-defined margin can help differentiate it from other skin infect...
Amputation is the loss or removal of a body part such as a finger, toe, hand, foot, arm or leg by trauma, medical illness or surgery. *As a surgical measure, it is used often to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene or the result of an accident. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventive surgery for such problems. * A special...
Staph infections are caused by staphylococcus bacteria, types of germs commonly found on the skin or in the nose of even healthy individuals. Most of the time, these bacteria cause no problems or result in relatively minor skin infections. * The generic name Staphylococcus is derived from the Greek word "staphyle," meaning bunch of grapes, and "kokkos," meaning granule. The bacteria, when seen ...
Perioperative mortality===* is death in relation to surgery, often defined as death within two weeks of a surgical procedure. Intraoperative causes * Complications during surgery, e.g. bleeding or perforation of organs, sepsis, and failure of vital organs or pre-existing medical conditions may have lethal sequel. * Mortality directly related to anesthetic management is less common, and may incl...
==Gangrene== Definition: Localized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from either obstructed circulation or bacterial infection. Gangrene is a condition that occurs when body tissue dies. It is caused by a loss of blood supply due to an underlying illness, injury, and/or infection. Fingers, toes, and limbs are most often affected, but gangrene can also occur inside the body, dama...
Please add profiles of people diagnosed with Tuberculosis & are living with it, or have died, but their cause of death was attributed to another cause.=== “TB” is short for a disease called tuberculosis. TB is spread through the air from one person to another. TB germs are passed through the air when someone who is sick with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks, laughs, sings, or sn...
Please add the profiles for those who died from Diarrhea.=== Be aware there is also a project for Dysentery * Dysentery is an intestinal inflammation, especially in the colon, that can lead to severe diarrhea with mucus or blood in the feces .* Flux is the discharge of large quantities of fluid material from the body, especially the discharge of watery feces from the intestines or hemorrhage. T...
Please add people who have died from Necrotizing fasciitis or flesh-eating disease.== Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) , (neck-roe-tie-zing fashee-eye-tis) commonly known as flesh-eating disease, is an infection that results in the death of the body's soft tissue (fascia & subcutaneous tissue). It is a severe disease of sudden onset that spreads rapidly through the tissue, or flesh surrounding the mu...
A gas-producing bacillus (Bacillus aerogenes capsulatus, Nov. spec.) capable of rapid development in the blood-vessels after death. NIH – Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920, By William Henry Welch, MD (1850-1934); and George H.F. Nuttall, MD, Ph.D, (1862-1937). From: The John Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, No. 24, Jul-Aug 1892 This infection is interesting because of the high death-rate and the ...
Influenza (2009-2010)== ===Please add profiles for those who died as a result of Influenza between 2009-2010.=== ===2009 – 2010===In the spring of 2009, a new flu virus spread quickly across the United States and the world. The first U.S. case of H1N1 (swine flu) was diagnosed on April 15, 2009. By April 21, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was working to develop a vaccine f...
A carbuncle is a red, swollen, painful cluster of boils that are connected to each other deeper under the skin .===* A boil (or furuncle) is an infection of a hair follicle that has a small collection of pus (called an abscess) under the skin. * A carbuncle is larger than a single boil, measuring up to 4 inches across. * A carbuncle usually has one or more openings that drain pus onto the skin....
Please add the profiles of those who have died as a result of an antibiotic resistant infection.== Antibiotics and similar drugs, together called antimicrobial agents, have been used for the last 70 years to treat patients who have infectious diseases. Since the 1940s, these drugs have greatly reduced illness and death from infectious diseases. However, these drugs have been used so widely and ...
Brain abscess (or cerebral abscess) is an abscess caused by inflammation and collection of infected material (pus), coming from local (ear infection, dental abscess, infection of paranasal sinuses, infection of the mastoid air cells of the temporal bone, epidural abscess) or remote (lung, heart, kidney etc.) infectious sources, within the brain tissue. The infection may also be introduced throu...
Asian Flu 1957 - 1958== ===Please add profiles for those who died as a result of Influenza (FLU) between 1957-1958.=== Tags: Asian Flu, Influenza, virus, cause of death, The "Asian Flu" was a category 2 flu pandemic outbreak of avian influenza that originated in China in early 1956 lasting until 1958. It originated from mutation in wild ducks combining with a pre-existing human strain.[42] The ...
Please add the profiles of those who died from Glanders.== Even though this disease is associated with horses, donkeys & mules, Glanders can be transmitted to humans. Glanders (from Middle English glaundres or Old French glandres, both meaning glands; Latin: malleus, German: Rotz; also known as "equinia", "farcy", and "malleus") is a highly contagious infectious disease that occurs primarily in...