This is devastating for an illness in which early detection is pivotal.
The purpose Is to help pa tients survive long‐term illness in which their natural digestive systems cannot function.
Only the chronic phase of the illness, in which esophageal disease manifests, is discussed in this chapter.
Anorexia is a mental illness in which the victim eats barely enough to survive, because her distorted thinking makes her think she is fat.
The scenes of her advancing illness, in which he must stand by helplessly as she retreats into a protective cocoon of silence and oblivion, are heartbreaking.
His wife, Polly, said the cause of death was amyloidosis, an illness in which insoluble protein fibers accumulate in body organs and impair them.
Ms. DeSormier has Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune illness in which people lack insulin because the body attacks its own insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
According to the Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation website, the disease is a chronic auto-immune illness in which white blood cells attack moisture-producing glands.
The sky becomes the perfect metaphor for the emotional shock of illness in which "the ground had already disappeared from beneath me".
Background: Bipolar disorder (BPD) is a mental illness in which depression and mania typically alternate, and both phases can present with psychotic features.
The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is a specific form of psychotherapy for chronic depression, an illness in which interpersonal deficits play a major role.
