Well, I might be wrong..... But I got the impression that House considered the
transverse myelitis as one of a set of symptoms this week, and not a full-blown
disease of its own. Because he said to give antibiotics for the TM, and then
to continue running tests for other things. Like the TM was just one of the
guy's symptoms. I believe TM can be considered an inflammation of the spine, in
which case I suppose someone could have that in addition to some other
problems. What do you guys think? I'm sure they must have excellent doctors
advising House, because they use such fancy terms all the time. They must know
that tons of medical professionals watch that show, and so have to be really
accurate all the time.
----- Original Message -----
From: Grace M.
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] did you all see house? TM was mentiond - I thought that
was cool
:
If they had reason to believe that the TM was caused by an underlying
infection, they would prescribe antibiotics. There are many diseases that
present with TM as a symptom, my own (NMO) included.
Grace
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