EFFECT AND SUBSEQUENT DIAGNOSIS OF LYMPHATIC DYSFUNCTION

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EFFECT AND SUBSEQUENT DIAGNOSIS OF LYMPHATIC DYSFUNCTION
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EFFECT AND SUBSEQUENT DIAGNOSIS OF LYMPHATIC DYSFUNCTION
Mr. Atkins, a 56-year-old gentleman, is a software engineer and a hardworking person.
He remained engrossed in his work, and after coming from the office, he visits his shop and
works over there. In addition to this, he has to cook his food and do the household work as
his wife passed away. Due to a lack of time and work pressure, he could not exercise
regularly and control his diet. Recently he felt slight back pain which he thought due to
constantly sitting in one place. However, his past medical history suggests that he received
physical therapy for disc herniation at L4-L5 about 6 years ago and had high cholesterol
which recently within range. Further report of biopsy suggests that he had cervical

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lymphadenopathy which is now under control. Till now, no problem has been diagnosed in
his lymphatic system. The removal of harmful waste, toxins and other body materials is done
by lymphatic system which is a collection of tissues and organs . The cells that are present in
the body are usually bathed in the interstitial fluid which continuously spills out via
permeable walls of the capillaries of the blood from the bloodstream. Out of all, few tissue
fluid at their venous end returns to the capillaries and the remaining diffuses through the
lymph capillaries ' more permeable walls, forming lymph. Upon returning to the blood,
lymph passes through vessels of varying number of lymph nodes and rising size (Waugh and
Grant, 2014). The anatomical structure of the lymphatic system comprises of :
 Lymph
 Lymph vessels
 Lymph nodes
 Lymph organs, e.g., spleen and thymus
 Diffuse lymphoid tissue, e.g., tonsils
 Bone marrow
Bone marrow and the thymus are the primary lymphoid organs, while the secondary
lymphoid organs are considered as spleen and lymph nodes (Randolph et al. 2017). The
primary lymphoid organs serve as the production site for the B and T cells ' clonal selection
and maturation, whereas the secondary lymphoid organ serves as sites for the maintenance of
mature naive lymphocytes and is also the site where antigen-binding lymphocytes are bound
and thus activated. The lymphatic system is regardes as the first line of defence. This network
of vessels and nodes shuttles and filters bacterial and antibody from lymphocyte-containing
lymph fluids. The lymph gets alter by first contact of the body with these invaders, calling for
this cycle to orchestrate how the cells battling infections prevent disease from invading