The human body is complex and medicine does not have all the answers yet. Diseases can throw up confusing symptoms and a myriad of tests have to be carried out before your doctor makes an accurate diagnosis of your condition. Sometimes the test results prove to be inconclusive and your doctor may be compelled to treat you on the basis of your symptoms.
Emergency medical situations are chaotic, and you know that even if you have never watched any episode of ER or Grey’s Anatomy (though you may have fallen asleep watching the latter show). The medical personnel-doctors and nurses-have to race against time to treat a patient. They don’t have the luxury of time to order a full suite of diagnostic tests to determine the nature of the patient’s problem, so they have to rely on their hunches sometimes.
Surgeries involve risk
Individuals in New York who have a disease called MELAS might be interested to learn that the Chinese Medical Journal has published a study that looks at the current methods of diagnosing the disease. MELAS is a mitochondrial disease, which tends to be rare, but among mitochondrial diseases, it is one of the more common ones. Because symptoms can vary from person to person, it is also frequently misdiagnosed. The prognosis for a patient with MELAS improves with an early diagnosis.
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