Hypersensitivity Disorders
These are among the most common of hypersensitivity disorders.
Allergies
This disease causes chronic inflammation of connective tissue.
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
This condition can develop after organ transplant and can be either chronic or acute.
Organ rejection
This virus causes AIDS
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)
This gland degenerates with age.
Thymus
This hypersensitivity can cause shortness of breath, itching, swelling, and hives.
Anaphylaxis
This inflammatory disease follows a strep infection and can affect the heart, joints, and skin.
Rheumatic fever
This is caused when a person is given the incorrect type of blood and cells begin to clot and attack themselves.
Blood transfusion reaction
This acquired disease is caused by the immune system being deficient in protecting the body.
AIDS (aquired immunodeficiency syndrome)
When the thymus gland decreases in size, it causes the _____ cell count in the body to decrease.
T
Symptoms of this disorder may include cramping, diarrhea, and vomiting.
Food allergies
This autoimmune disease is believed to be caused by a virus that inflames the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.
Type I diabetes (IDDM)
The four blood types are: AB, A, B, and _______.
O
HIV is transmitted primarily through sexual intercourse, in utero from mother to unborn child, and the sharing of _______________.
needles
These are the two types of immune cells in the human body.
T & B
This condition is characterized by red, raised areas on the skin, also known as "wheals"
Urticaria (hives)
This chronic condition has two types: cutaneous and systemic. Characterized by skin lesions.
Lupus erythematosus
This is caused when a mother's blood attacks and destroys the antigen on the baby's RBCs, ultimately killing the fetus.
Erythroblastosis fetalis
The stages of HIV infection are:
Acute infection, asymptomatic HIV, and symptomatic HIV, and advanced HIV
As a result of aging, the _________ are more likely to attack the body's own tissue.
antibodies
This condition is caused by bronchospasms or muscular constriction of the bronchi in the respiratory tract.
Asthma
This disease affects the transmission of nerve signals to muscle, causing muscle weakness.
Myasthenia gravis
These type of medications must be taken prior to and for the remainder of the organ recipient's life.
Immunosuppression medications
AIDS is diagnosed when the T cell count drops below ________ mL.
200
The main cells of the immune system are the ______________.
lymphocytes