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Mechanism of clubbing?
Clubbing is thought to be caused by increased blood flow to the fingertips, leading to growth of the soft tissues under the nails. This is believed to be due to chronic low oxygen levels in the blood, which can occur in conditions such as lung disease, heart disease, or certain infections. The exact mechanism is not fully understood, but it is believed to involve changes in the small blood vessels and connective tissue in the fingertips.
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Why does clubbing occurs in liver cirrhosis?
Even though clubbing is a widely recognized symptom of many diseases the physiological mechanism that actually causes clubbing is not well understood. Current understanding is that these diseases cause http://www.answers.com/topic/vasodilator in the distal circulation which leads to http://www.answers.com/topic/organ-hypertrophy of the tissue of the nailbeds and thus to the clubbed fingernails. Other factors that have been implicated are the local effects of growth factors (such as http://www.answers.com/topic/platelet-derived-growth-factor and http://www.answers.com/topic/hepatocyte-growth-factor) that are usually sequestrated in the pulmonary capillary bed. Many of the conditions associated with clubbing result in shunting across some of the capillary beds in the pulmonary circulation.http://www.answers.com/clubbing See the Related Links for "The aetiology of clubbing and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy." to the bottom for the answer.
What causes clubbed fingertips?
Nail clubbing commonly occurs in relation with a heart or lung disease. The symptom of the disease is enlarged fingernails. In sixty per cent of the cases, nail clubbing occurs without relation to any disease.
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Which people are most likely to exhibit clubbing?
The most common cause of clubbing is lung cancer. It is also commonly caused by other lung/heart diseases like interstitial lung disease or really any disease that causes chronic hypoxia. Hypoxia is a word used to describe the lack of sufficient oxygen supply in the body. Clubbing is caused by lack of oxygen in the blood, so on a basic note, any disease that causes the blood to be depraved of enough oxygen can cause hypoxia. The people most likely to exhibit clubbing are people with lung cancer, as lung cancer is responsible for over 50% of the cases.
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The sliding mechanism joins the phone to the keyboard. The mechanism causes the keyboard to slide out from underneath the phone.
