Season 6
Episode 21 - Baggage
Brief Plot Summary
The episode starts with House meeting his therapist and they talk through a flashback of House's week. His last case was a long distance runner with amnesia. An MRI revealed a lack of differentiation between gray and white matter in the part of her brain that controls memory. She appears to be having partial seizures when her leg falls numb and she loses bladder control. House wants to do a surgery that will remove her long term memory, but her husband doesn't allow it. Now the disease has spread to her brain stem. They then realize it's attacking her whole body. House thinks it could be TB. When House sees an old tattoo that she tried to remove, he realizes that the left over ink caused an onset of a systemic allergic reaction probably due to her immune system being modified from her long-distance running.
The episode starts with House meeting his therapist and they talk through a flashback of House's week. His last case was a long distance runner with amnesia. An MRI revealed a lack of differentiation between gray and white matter in the part of her brain that controls memory. She appears to be having partial seizures when her leg falls numb and she loses bladder control. House wants to do a surgery that will remove her long term memory, but her husband doesn't allow it. Now the disease has spread to her brain stem. They then realize it's attacking her whole body. House thinks it could be TB. When House sees an old tattoo that she tried to remove, he realizes that the left over ink caused an onset of a systemic allergic reaction probably due to her immune system being modified from her long-distance running.
Diagnosed Disease: Allergic Reaction - Overactive immune system response to a normally harmless foreign body causing excessive inflammation locally or systemically.
SymptomsRedness, itching, rash, hives, airway closure, anaphylactic shock, etc. There are a host of symptoms that can occur from allergic reaction, especially rare systemic ones.
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CausesImmune system sensitization to a harmless foreign body, causing excessive inflammation and normal tissue damage.
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TestsAfter finding out the allergen, removing that allergen from the environment will alleviate all symptoms. Alternatively, re-introducing the allergen will once again cause the symptoms.
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Treatment/CureEpinephrine is used to alleviate acute allergic reactions that cause anaphylactic shock. Anti-histamines and steroids are given to reduce inflammation. Removing or limiting exposure to the allergen.
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Source Links: Web MD
Episode 22 - Help Me
Brief Plot Summary
A crane has collapsed onto a building, injuring and trapping hundreds of people in the rubble. When the crane operator appears to have passed out while operating the crane, House believes he's found a case. Underneath the rubble, House also finds a woman, but her leg is trapped under a block of concrete. They have to amputate after a secondary collapse to prevent crush syndrome and while taking her back to the hospital, she has a fat embolism from the amputation, causing a heart attack and she dies. House believes the operator had a brain legion. During an MRI, he begins to bleed from his nose and eye. They find nothing in the angiogram and the lumbar puncture is also negative. House then realizes that he had a spinal meningeal cyst that increased CNS pressure causing his symptoms, which can be removed by simple surgery. At the end of the scene, Cuddy comes in just as House is going to take vicodin pills, proclaiming she ended it with Lucas and that she is in love with House.
A crane has collapsed onto a building, injuring and trapping hundreds of people in the rubble. When the crane operator appears to have passed out while operating the crane, House believes he's found a case. Underneath the rubble, House also finds a woman, but her leg is trapped under a block of concrete. They have to amputate after a secondary collapse to prevent crush syndrome and while taking her back to the hospital, she has a fat embolism from the amputation, causing a heart attack and she dies. House believes the operator had a brain legion. During an MRI, he begins to bleed from his nose and eye. They find nothing in the angiogram and the lumbar puncture is also negative. House then realizes that he had a spinal meningeal cyst that increased CNS pressure causing his symptoms, which can be removed by simple surgery. At the end of the scene, Cuddy comes in just as House is going to take vicodin pills, proclaiming she ended it with Lucas and that she is in love with House.
