Hypertension in Pregnancy
This picture shows how preeclampsia affects the spiral artery in pregnant women. This picture shows how preeclampsia can affect the maternal blood flow from the spiral artery.
Bacterial Meningitis
My steam project is looking at the immune system’s response to bacterial meningitis. I chose bacterial meningitis because my brother was diagnosed in the beginning of January, it was very terrifying for my family. It was also the case study we did on the lymphatic and immune system that inspired …
Ulcerative Colitis
Link to essay: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hMnx0ClOn7eE8nQahOOErk3-Gs8BIi3A6Hj0fuuYq6I/edit
Lymphedema
I did my project on explaining lymphedema and its management options. The objective that I am covering is how the lymphatic system can indicate disease. Lymphedema is a disease that occurs when fluid builds up inside the tissues because of a lymph malfunction. The lymph gets stuck inside the interstitial …
More Common Than You Think: A Quiet Disease Impacting Millions of Women
Do you know what the leading cause of infertility in the United States is? Once it was unheard of, but now it’s becoming a household phrase: polycystic ovary syndrome. The name is exactly how it sounds, an ovary with several (poly) cysts. This hormonal condition affects millions of women of …
Sickle Cell Anemia
Media type: Children’s book Also view using the download option above ^ The course objective I’ve chosen to cover for my STEAM project is on the cardiovascular system, specifically sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease that causes abnormal red blood cell shape due to the presence …
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Antiphospholipid syndrome is a type of autoimmune disease that “…is characterized by thrombosis and/or pregnancy complications in the presence of persistent antiphospholipid antibodies…” (Chaturvedi & McCrae, 2017). Thrombosis is where your blood vessels become blocked due to blood clots. The antibodies antiphospholipid syndrome produces attack the phospholipids within your blood. …
Pros and Cons of Early Parasitic Exposure: Toxoplasma Gondii Edition
(Apologies if this uploads and its blurry 🙁 ) This is Pingpong. Pingpong was lucky enough to be exposed to the parasite Toxoplasma Gondii at a young age. It is a parasite meant to infect mice and turn off their instinctual reaction of fear when sensing cats, but has been …
Cardiovascular system; Exploring Heart Valve Disease: Causes, Symptoms, and Management
For my STEAM presentation, I will be focusing the course objectives of the cardiovascular and circulatory system and expand on those topics into issues that can occur within the heart. Specifically, I will be expanding on heart valve disease and covering the impacts of this disease on blood flow within …