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What is Pathology

Handbook of Research on Developments in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
The physical and mental abnormalities that result from disease or trauma.
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Analyzing and Tracking the Evolution of Rehabilitation Treatment for Patients with Locomotory Deficiencies
Dorin Carstoiu (“Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania) and Alexandra Cernian (“Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-670-4.ch046
Abstract
The main concern of the work presented in this manuscript was setting up a complex system for the individualized management of mobility recovery for patients with neuromuscular and orthopaedics pathology through interdisciplinary research. Our goal is to aggregate information from multiple hardware devices into a single data acquisition and processing system with direct applicability in the human motility analysis, namely gait analysis. The authors combine high performance image acquisition techniques with the acquisition of clinically interpretable data. The purpose is setting up a complex database (medical, imagistic, biomechanical) and developing conceptual models for interpreting the available data, with direct applicability in choosing the adequate treatment and evaluating its efficiency. Since the authors are dealing with a system with open architecture, another aspect which concerned them was the security of the system. Consequently, they propose combining the conventional smart used for identification with biometric characteristics, namely fingerprints, substantially preventing unauthorised access to the confidential information
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Electronic Test Management Systems and Hospital Pathology Laboratory Services
Clinically-led diagnostic, laboratory, and post mortem services that cover a range of tests on blood and other human materials necessary for diagnosis and monitoring of a wide range of clinical conditions so that appropriate treatment can be given (Department of Health, 2004).
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Formal and Informal Care: Home Care in the Elderly With Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Part of medicine that studies the anatomical and physiological disorders of diseased tissues and organs, as well as the symptoms and signs through which diseases manifest themselves and the causes that produce them.
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Cytopathology and the Smartphone: An Update
From Greek pathos (p????), meaning “suffering” and -logia (-????a), meaning study, a medical diagnosis and research field, studying cause of diseases, traditionally by tissue, cells or body fluid analysis via the microscope. Cytopathology is considered a sub specialty of pathology in many countries.
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