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unusual facts about Caplan's syndrome


Caplan's syndrome

Rheumatoid factor, antinuclear antibodies, and non-organ specific antibodies may be present in the serum.


2012 Football League Cup Final

Captain Mark Hudson had a calf problem, while midfielder Stephen McPhail had missed Cardiff's last four matches as he was suffering from Sjögren's syndrome, an immune system disorder.

A Solitary Grief

Crown, who is not present during birth, is informed immediately afterwards that their daughter Doris has Down's syndrome, a fact he is unable to accept.

A. J. Burnett

He was diagnosed with Gilbert's syndrome, a rare but benign genetic defect in the liver in which bilirubin conjugation ability may lead to mild jaundice under certain conditions.

Alison Fraser

Fraser has appeared as the flamboyant but clueless "Babs Caplan" on the award-winning series, Between the Lions on PBS.

Altruism theory of voting

In response to U.S. Republican candidate Mitt Romney's remarks about the "47%" of Americans who will "always" vote Democrat because they are dependent on the welfare state, Caplan writes,

American Psychiatric Association

The APA's Standard Diagnostic Manual came under criticism from autism specialists Tony Attwood and Simon Baron-Cohen for proposing the elimination of Asperger's syndrome as a disorder and replacing it with an autism severity scale.

Animalize

St. John was forced to leave Kiss during the subsequent tour after being diagnosed with Reiter's Syndrome.

Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody

Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody (anti-GBM Ab) is an antibody which is found in Goodpasture's syndrome but not found in microscopic polyangiitis.

Buckeye, Arizona

In 2013, a video featuring a Verrado High School student who overcame Down's Syndrome to join the school's cheerleading squad, and using the Katy Perry song "Roar", was selected as a finalist in a Good Morning America contest.

Buile Shuibhne

A contemporary version of the legend by poet Patricia Monaghan explores Sweeney as an archetype of the warrior suffering from "Soldier's Heart".

Chromothripsis

Bloom's syndrome: Mutations in BLM gene which encodes a family of RecQ DNA Helicases cause accumulation of micronuclei that give rise to Blooms syndrome which predisposes patients to cancer.

Creative Playthings

Frank Caplan worked with such notable artists, architects, and designers as Isamu Noguchi, Louis Kahn, Henry Moore, and Robert Winston on comprehensive playground designs - although some of these designs were not fully realized.

Cushing's syndrome

Plasma CRH levels are inadequate at diagnosis (with the possible exception of tumors secreting CRH) because of peripheral dilution and binding to CRHBP.

Deborah Hutchison

She quickly established a new company, Rosen-Caplan, working with broadcasting corporations NBC and CBS while simultaneously co-founded Panther Productions inc, through which she and husband Hall have worked on projects such as Liquid Television, Jay Jay the Jet Plane, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Alice in Wonderland (2010).

Douglas Reye

In 1963 The Lancet published an article written by Reye, Graeme Morgan and Jim Baral about an encephalopathic condition that became known as Reye's syndrome.

Educating Peter

Educating Peter is a 1992 American short documentary film directed by Gerardine Wurzburg about Peter Gwazdauskas, a special needs student with Down's syndrome, and his inclusion in a standard third grade classroom in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Eleanor Taylor Bland

Bland died of Gardner's syndrome on June 2, 2010, at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan.

Explosive child

The child identified as being an explosive child can be also classified as bipolar or diagnosed as having Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Intermittent explosive disorder, Tourette syndrome, Asperger's syndrome or obsessive compulsive disorder.

Gerald Caplan

From 1982 to 1984, Caplan was federal secretary of the New Democratic Party, and was national campaign manager for the 1984 general election.

Gitelman syndrome

In contrast to patients with Gordon's syndrome, those suffering from Gitelman's syndrome are generally normotensive.

Hans Conrad Julius Reiter

He was not the first person to describe this syndrome, which would later become known as Reiter's syndrome (later renamed to Reactive arthritis when his Nazi affiliation came to light).

Horner's syndrome

In France and Italy, Claude Bernard is also eponymized with the condition ("Claude Bernard-Horner syndrome").

Kimberly Marie Freeman

As a past student of The University of Dundee and HB Studio in New York, she has studied with Aleksey Burago, Karen Ludwig, Amanda Quaid, Joseph Daly, George Bartenieff, and has studied privately with Dan Manjovi, Liz Caplan.

Liddle's syndrome

It is named after Dr. Grant Liddle (1921–1989), a Pioneering American Endocrinologist at Vanderbilt University, who discovered it in 1963.

Lorna Wing

Wing is the author of many books and academic papers, including Asperger's Syndrome: a Clinical Account, a 1981 academic paper that popularised the research of Hans Asperger and introduced the term "Asperger's syndrome".

Mad as a hatter

Mercury poisoning – Absorption of mercury through the skin can cause Korsakoff's syndrome.

Medial pontine syndrome

"Medial inferior pontine syndrome" has been described as equivalent to Foville's syndrome.

Minor's disease

The term "Minor's syndrome" is now only rarely used in connection with his work and is increasingly being used, both inside and outside the medical profession, to refer to superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS), first described in 1998 by Dr. Lloyd B. Minor of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.

Mitch Caplan

From 1984 to 1990 Caplan was an associate of the law firm Shearman & Sterling.

Moshe Gottesman

The program currently accommodates children with everything from basic learning disabilities to Down's syndrome and various types of autism.

Nate Fisher

Brenda later becomes pregnant again, but she and Nate disagree on whether or not she should have amniocentesis to determine if the baby has Down's syndrome or spina bifida after blood tests show the baby may have special needs.

Orbitalis muscle

Horner's syndrome causes paralysis of the structures of the eye and orbit that receive sympathetic innervation.

Pancoast tumor

Aside from cancer general symptoms such as malaise, fever, weight loss and fatigue, Pancoast tumour can include a complete Horner's syndrome in severe cases: miosis (constriction of the pupils), anhidrosis (lack of sweating), ptosis (drooping of the eyelid) and enophthalmos (sunken eyeball).

Reye's syndrome

In some countries, oral mouthcare product Bonjela (not the form specifically designed for teething) has labeling cautioning against its use in children, given its salicylate content.

Sara Cogan

Her most recent role was as a midwife named Cheryl in EastEnders, alongside Emma Barton (Honey Mitchell) and Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell), in a storyline about Down's syndrome.

Sicca

Sicca syndrome - Sicca means "dryness", and may refer to Sjögren's syndrome, or to oral dryness (xerostomia) and eye dryness ("keratoconjunctivitis sicca") which is not caused by autoimmune diseasees such as Sjögren's.

Sjögren's syndrome

In 2008, mucosal administration of α-fodrin, an autoantigen in Sjögren's syndrome, was shown to inhibit the progression of the disorder in mice effectively.

Sophie Blake

In 2009 Blake was diagnosed with Asherman's syndrome where due to complications from the birth of her first child the formation of scar tissue causes adhesions in the womb.

Troy Smith

Smith was scheduled to start in the third preseason game of the 2008 season, but became ill with a rare disease called Lemierre's syndrome.

Twink Caplan

Caplan played the dance teacher in the television series "Community" in season 1 episode 14 entitled Interpretive Dance.

Caplan has also played B. Lawney, a waitress with Richard Gere in The Flock, directed by Andrew Lau; Mary Benett, a hard-edged bus driver for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; and a past-her-prime movie star desperate for a come-back in Secrets of a Hollywood Nurse.

Vince Earl

In 2010, he was hospitalised with Goodpasture's syndrome which resulted in the need for regular dialysis.


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