Category Archives: Supported Diseases

In Their Words: Stephanie Hukill, Factor XIII

Posted on March 14, 2013 by CVCAdmin

When I was born, everything was fine. But when my umbilical cord fell off, it just kept bleeding and bleeding and bleeding. My mom kept taking me back to the…

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Pulmonary Hypertension (PH)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by CVCinfo

Pulmonary hypertension is continuous high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery. The average blood pressure in a normal pulmonary artery is about 14 mmHg when the person is resting. In…

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Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in which a person experiences extreme fatigue and often falls asleep at inappropriate times, such as at work…

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Infantile Spasms (IS)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by CVCinfo

Infantile spasms (also called “West syndrome” after the physician who first described the spasms in the 1840s) are a special form of infant epilepsy. The spasms commonly begin between four…

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Huntington’s Disease (HD)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by CVCinfo

Huntington’s disease is a progressive, degenerative disease that causes certain nerve cells in the brain to deteriorate. As a result, adults afflicted by the disease experience uncontrolled movements, behavioral disturbance,…

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