Risk Associated with Ventricular Assist Device

The paper “Causes and Risk Factors Associated with Ventricular Assist Device” is an excellent example of an assignment on medical science.   Vitamin A deficiency is a medical condition associated with lack of vitamin A in the body of an individual and by extension lack of Vitamin A in the diet. Vitamin A is in a class of vitamins that is essential majorly for the proper functioning of the visual system but is also vital for general body growth and that of the immune system. Vitamin A deficiency is therefore classified with regard to severity to the effects of the visual system of an individual, basically the eye. Risk Associated with Ventricular Assist Device

Night blindness is the major illness associated with Vitamin A deficiency; others will include xerophthalmia, outright blindness, Bitot’ s spot, and effects on cornea like drying, ulceration and scarring de (Benoist, Andersson, Takkouche, & Egli 2003, p. 1859). Causes of Vitamin A deficiency varies depending on the age of children, in infants the condition is majorly caused by premature stoppage of breastfeeding, this is because at this age the baby entirely depends on the breast milk for nutrients uptake.