Homeostasis in Health: An Intracerebral Hemorrhage Case Analysis

This case study examines a 57-year-old patient who developed intracerebral hemorrhage due to uncontrolled hypertension and lipidaemia, leading to a homeostatic disturbance. The condition, identified through a CT scan, involves bleeding in the brain, affecting vascular and neuronal functions. Symptoms included headache, nausea, and left arm and leg weakness, exacerbated by a history of smoking. The homeostatic imbalance primarily affects the nervous system, brain tissue, and blood vessels, with the hypothalamus being a key area of concern. Processes such as thermoregulation are involved in diagnosing the patient's symptoms, leading to neuronal dysfunction. While the cardiac monitor indicated a normal sinus rhythm, the nervous system's role in regulating homeostasis is significantly compromised due to the intracerebral bleed.

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Health Homeostasis
JUNE 9, 2018

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Clinical Case Scenario
As reported in the clinical case study, it has been shown that a patient (57 year old) develops
some symptoms due to careless towards taking proper medication for hypertension and
lipidaemia. And after the laboratory examination through the CT scan of the body, it was
observed that the patient had ‘Intracerebral Haemorrhage’ involving basal ganglia
(Radiopaedia, 2018), for which the causes were long standing hypertension and stroke.
Stroke is associated with the massive physiological disturbance of the vascular and neuronal
function. Intracerebral bleed or intracerebral haemorrhage refers to the state when blood
suddenly starts leaking in the brain damaging the brain tissue. The symptoms were headache,
nausea, left arm and leg weakness (half paralysis). Also he had a habit of smoking in his adult
life which is harmful for the human health. The effect or the impact of the homeostasis can be
seen on the body parts or tissues which affect the functioning of the body, it may have an
effect on the organs system such as nervous system, brain, eyes, brain tissue or ventricle and
the blood vessels. Thus, the intracerebral bleed led to the homeostatic disturbance as the
patient’s mental health was disturbed, his brain was not functioning properly.
Homeostasis
As, to be stated health ‘Homeostasis’ refers to the state of being stable, balanced within a cell
or the body. It is the ability of a human being to keep the internal environment sound. It exists
or observed when the internal conditions of the human body are within the normal limits.
Therefore, it can be said that the homeostasis regulates the organisms, and their internal
environment which is further maintained by different mechanisms, and these mechanisms
have atleast 3 components, which are the sensor, integrating receptor and an effector. And

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homeostatic disturbance occurs when there is any change in the internal conditions of the
being that means when it goes out of normal limits. It is an essential feature of human beings
and the endocrine system play a vital role in the homeostasis because hormones manage the
functioning the body cells (Bailey, 2017).
Processes involved in the clinical case study.
The processes describing about the homeostatic imbalance of the human in the clinical case
scenario can be described as ‘Thermoregulation’, which is involved in the diagnosis of the
symptoms of the patient leading to ‘Intracerebral bleed’ which affects the normal functioning
of the human body. Biological processes are also affected in this process, and when
disruption occurs in those biological processes leading to neuronal dysfunction which further
may result into numerous phenotypes. Under the state of intracerebral bleed, nervous system
is concerned (Fletcher, 2017).The portion of the brain causing homeostatic imbalance is
hypothalamus, which as per the case study depicted the symptoms of severe headache, and
others. Moreover, mentioning about the cardiac monitor or the cardiovascular tissues which
indicated the normal sinus rhythm which means a normal heartbeat which is a regular, narrow
complex heart rhythm at 60-100bpm (Burns, 2017). Since, of all the other body systems,
nervous system is the major controller of the homeostasis because it provides regulation and
it monitors all the other systems in the human body as well as other organisms.

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