For example, pacemakers and medications for irregular heartbeats, such as the anti-arrhythmia drug amiodarone, may be life saving for some patients with chronic cardiac disease, while surgery may be required for megaintestine.

For example, a " man on the street " interview which selects people who walk by a certain location is going to have an overrepresentation of healthy individuals who are more likely to be out of the home than individuals with a chronic illness.

For example, it has been shown that people ’ s subjective perception of their situation when faced with chronic pain, judging their perceived ability to handle the situation and their general positivity, is able to influence their well-being.

For evaluation of chronic interstitial processes ( emphysema, fibrosis, and so forth ), thin sections with high spatial frequency reconstructions are used ; often scans are performed both in inspiration and expiration.

For example, acute inflammatory, chronic inflammatory and catarrhal signs may indicate involvement, maintenance, or healing of corresponding distant tissues, respectively.

For example, quinine comes from the cinchona tree has been used to treat malaria, digitalis from the foxglove plant treats chronic heart trouble, and morphine from the poppy plant gives pain relief.

For these, a number of tests are performed, lasting less than a month ( acute ), one to three months ( subchronic ), and more than three months ( chronic ) to test general toxicity ( damage to organs ), eye and skin irritancy, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, and reproductive problems.

For example, biologists studying stress in fish showed that social subordination leads to chronic stress, related to reduced aggressive interactions, to lack of control, and to the constant threat imposed by dominant fish.

For dogs that have reached the chronic stage of the disease, the prognosis is guarded.

* For chronic conditions such as cancer, it takes months, if not years, to see if a cancer treatment has an effect on a patient.

For example, Cookie Gilchrist's six straight CFL All-Star selections ( followed by four consecutive AFL All-Star picks ) appear to bear no weight on his consideration ( Gilchrist also had antisocial tendencies stemming from the onset of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which led him to decline most Hall of Fame honors during his lifetime ).

For acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis, if antibiotics are used, amoxicillin or doxycycline is recommended.

For instance, neurogenesis has been found to increase in response to chronic treatment with antidepressants.

For some time before 1883 he suffered from diabetes with chronic disorder of the heart and liver, but struggled against it ; on March 16, 1883 he sat in court for the last time, and five days later he died at his residence in London, the immediate cause of death being cardiac syncope.

For example, studies were done on trauma-related guilt characteristics of war veterans with chronic PTSD 8.

For a diagnosis, the patient must have a chronic history of premature ejaculation, poor ejaculatory control, and the problem must cause feelings of dissatisfaction as well as distress the patient, the partner or both.

For Wilhelm Reich, character structures are based upon blocks -- chronic, unconsciously held muscular contractions -- against awareness of feelings.

For chronic adrenal insufficiency, the major contributors are autoimmune adrenalitis, tuberculosis, AIDS and metastatic disease.

For example, HSCT patients with either acute and in particular chronic graft-versus-host disease after an allogeneic transplant tend to have a lower risk of cancer relapse.

For those patients whose low back pain continues on to chronicity, it is rarely self limiting, as fewer than 10 % of those patients whose low back pain becomes chronic report no pain five years later.

For example, grading of chronic renal insufficiency and dosage of drugs that are excreted primarily via urine are based on GFR ( or creatinine clearance ).

For most women, alteration of menstrual periods is the principal indication of chronic anovulation.

For most patients, movements made during normal daily activities are enough to achieve chronic ( long-term ) compensation, usually in two to four weeks after the injury has occurred.

For example, roughly one third of patients with chronic urticaria spontaneously develop auto-antibodies directed at the receptor FcεRI located on skin mast cells.

For the remainder of his career, Borowy was plagued by finger blisters and a chronic sore shoulder.

For erotic electrostimulation, these are typically items designed to be applied to the genitals such as vaginal plugs and shields, anal plugs, probes to directly stimulate the prostate, testicle rings, CBT boards, cock rings, urethral probes, and other items for penile application.

: Potential problems: For severe hypospadias ( 3rd degree, on perineum ) constructing a urethral tube the length of the phallus is not always successful, leaving an opening ( a " fistula ") proximal to the intended urethral opening.

For example, it is often prescribed after the use of an in-dwelling Foley catheter, endoscopic ( cystoscopy ) procedures, or after urethral, prostate, or urinary bladder surgery which may result in irritation of the epithelial lining of the urinary tract.

For example, they are sometimes used off-label to manage aspects of Tourette syndrome or autism spectrum disorders.

For some individuals, an obsessive compulsion to believe, prove, or re-tell a conspiracy theory may indicate one or a combination of well-understood psychological conditions, and other hypothetical ones: paranoia, denial, schizophrenia, mean world syndrome.

For example, a donor egg can be used to create an embryo, which is carried by the Turner syndrome woman.

For instance, long QT syndrome, a condition often mentioned in young people's deaths, occurs in 1 / 5000-1 / 7000 newborns and is estimated to be responsible 3000 deaths each year compared to the approximately 300000 cardiac arrests seen by emergency services.

For instance, the polyneuropathy of acute porphyria may be mistaken for Guillain-Barré syndrome, and porphyria testing is commonly recommended in those situations.

For these reasons is often advised not to use monotherapy in treating Lemierre's syndrome.

For example, Cri du chat syndrome involves a deletion on the short arm of chromosome 5.

For example, someone experiencing conversion syndrome may become temporarily blind due to the stress of the loss of a parent or spouse.

For related phenomena see Androgen insensitivity syndrome and Intersex.

For example, Gilbert's syndrome is associated with severe diarrhea and neutropenia in patients who are treated with irinotecan, which is metabolized by UGT1A1.

For example, postmenopausal syndrome gives a higher likelihood of also developing endometrial cancer, so estrogens given for the postmenopausal syndrome may receive a higher than actual blame for causing endometrial cancer.

For the period 1991-1994, the annual rate of hospitalizations due to Reye ’ s syndrome in the US was estimated to be between 0. 2 and 1. 1 per million population less than 18 years of age.

For women, almost any physiological change that affects the reproductive system — premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause — can have an adverse effect on libido.

For example, children and teenagers with viral infections should not be given aspirin because of the risk of Reye's syndrome, and a person with an anaphylactic food allergy should never eat the food to which they are allergic.

For example being over transfused or being the recipient twin in a pregnancy undergoing twin to twin transfusion syndrome.

For example, carriers of Robertsonian translocations involving chromosome 21 have a higher chance of having a child with Down syndrome. This is known as a ' translocation Downs '.

For example, many women suffer from the “ good girl syndrome ” because they were taught that only “ bad girls ” will do a striptease for their lover, masturbate, give oral, have anal or even initiate sex when they want it.

For those experiencing CBS, knowing that they are suffering from this syndrome and not a mental illness seems to be the best treatment so far, as it improves their ability to cope with the hallucinations.

For example, a patient with an underlying myeloproliferative disorder may progress to acute leukemia, independently of Budd – Chiari syndrome.

For too long, we have lived with the “ Vietnam Syndrome .” Much of that syndrome has been created by the North Vietnamese aggressors who now threaten the peaceful people of Thailand.

For example, in a patient with known Type 2 autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome but no features of Addison's disease, regular screening for antibodies against 21-hydroxylase ( a feature of Addison's ) may prompt early intervention and hydrocortisone replacement to prevent characteristic crises.

: For other uses of " Bad Hair Day ," see Uncombable hair syndrome.

For example diseases such as cancer and AIDS induce a body wasting syndrome called " cachexia ", which is notable for the severe muscle atrophy seen.

For example, excessive blinking may help to indicate the onset of Tourette syndrome, strokes or disorders of the nervous system.