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Tay-sachs Disease
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Tay-sachs Disease
Discusses definition, overview of physiology of inborn error of lipid metabolism of disease & nursing interventions in context of systems & stress theory.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages) |
35 sources |
1989
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"The purpose of this research is twofold. First, an overview is provided of the physiology of the inborn error of lipid metabolism of Tay.Sachs disease. Second, nursing interventions with respect to Tay.Sachs disease considered within the frame.work of systems and stress theory.Tay.Sachs is a neurologic degenerative disease resulting from the abnormal storage of lipids (Nyhan, 1980). The mean age of diagnosis approximates eight.and.one.half months, which is often up to three months after parents "first noticed that something was wrong" (Paritszk, 1985, p. 261). Tay.Sachs disease results in both mental and motor retardation, and in death by ages two.to.four years (Strickberger, 1976).
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"Tay-sachs Disease" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Tay-sachs-Disease/17772>
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