Galactosemia Detailed Information
Posted on October 6, 2008 - Filed Under Health | Leave a Comment
Galactosemia is also very common in the Irish Traveller population. This is attributed to consanguinity within a relatively small gene pool.
Galactosemia is the lack of ability of the body to employ (metabolize) the simple sugar galactose, causing the buildup of galactose 1-phosphate in the body. It arises in about 1 out of every 60,000 births among Caucasians, while the rate is dissimilar for other groups. There are three forms of the disease include galactose-1 phosphate uridyl transferase lack (classic galactosemia, the most common and most severe form), deficiency of galactose kinase, and deficiency of galactose-6-phosphate epimerase. People with galactosemia are unable to completely break down the simple sugar galactose.
Gestational trophoblastic disease Detailed Information
Posted on September 16, 2008 - Filed Under Health | Leave a Comment
Gestational trophoblastic illness is also called a choriocarcinoma.
Gestational trophoblastic disease is a quick increasing form of cancer that arises in a woman’s uterus after a pregnancy, miscarriage, or abortion. It is usually metastatic, which means it spreads to other places in the body. It develops in the uterus when cancerous cells grow in the tissues that are formed following conception (the union of a sperm and egg), and generally becomes evident some 10 to 16 weeks after conception. These tissues, called the trophoblast, develop into the placenta.
