Double tachycardia induced by catecholamines is an old name for a rare heart rhythm disease now called catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). In this condition, stress hormones ...
Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) is a very rare, life-threatening autoimmune blood-clotting disorder. In this condition, the immune system makes harmful antibodies called ...
Debre-Mollaret syndrome is an older name for cat-scratch disease, a bacterial infection of the lymph nodes after contact with an infected cat. It is caused mainly by the bacterium Bartonella ...
Cat-scratch fever, also called cat-scratch disease, is a bacterial infection that happens after a person is scratched, bitten, or licked on broken skin by a cat that carries a germ called Bartonella ...
Bartonellosis due to Bartonella henselae is best known as the cause of “cat scratch disease.” It is an infection that usually starts after a scratch, bite, or lick from an infected cat. The germ is a ...
Cat scratch disease is a mild to sometimes serious infection that people get after a scratch, bite, or lick from a cat that carries a bacteria called Bartonella henselae. It mainly causes swollen, ...
Carnosinemia is a very rare inherited metabolic disease. It happens when the body does not have enough of an enzyme called carnosinase. This enzyme normally breaks down a small protein (a dipeptide) ...
Carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase (CACT) deficiency is a rare inherited disorder of fat breakdown (fatty-acid β-oxidation). The CACT protein sits in the inner wall of the mitochondria (the cell’s ...
Late-onset Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase II (CPT II) Deficiency is an inherited problem in the way muscles burn long-chain fats for energy. The CPT2 gene makes an enzyme (CPT II) that sits on the ...
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase 1A (CPT1A) Deficiency is a rare, inherited metabolic disorder that blocks the body from using certain fats (long-chain fatty acids) for energy. Normally, a protein ...
Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase I (CPS1) deficiency is a rare, inherited problem of the urea cycle. The urea cycle is the liver’s “nitrogen-cleaning” system. It turns extra nitrogen (from protein ...
Aspartoacylase deficiency is a rare, inherited brain disorder in which a single enzyme—called aspartoacylase (ASPA)—does not work properly. This enzyme normally breaks down a natural brain chemical ...
Calciphylaxis is a rare but very serious disease of small blood vessels in the skin and fat. Calcium builds up in the walls of tiny arterioles. The vessels become narrowed and blocked. Blood cannot ...
Benzoylcholinesterase (also called pseudocholinesterase or butyrylcholinesterase) is an enzyme made in the liver and released into your blood. Its job is to help break down some anesthesia drugs, ...
Post-anesthetic apnea due to BCHE deficiency means a person has a much slower breakdown of certain anesthesia muscle-relaxing drugs—mainly succinylcholine (also called suxamethonium) and mivacurium. ...
Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) deficiency—also called pseudocholinesterase deficiency—is a condition in which the blood enzyme that breaks down certain anesthesia drugs works poorly or is missing. ...
