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An idiopathic disease is any disease with an unknown cause or mechanism of apparent spontaneous origin. [ 1 ] For some medical conditions, one or more causes are somewhat understood, but in a certain percentage of people with the condition, the cause may not be readily apparent or characterized.
Idiopathic chronic fatigue; Idiopathic giant-cell myocarditis; Idiopathic hypercalcinuria; Inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system; Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia; Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Immune thrombocytopenic purpura
Idiopathic dilatation of the pulmonary artery; Idiopathic dilation cardiomyopathy; Idiopathic double athetosis; Idiopathic edema; Idiopathic eosinophilic chronic pneumopathy; Idiopathic facial palsy; Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome; Idiopathic infection caused by BCG or atypical mycobacteria; Idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis; Idiopathic ...
Inflammatory myopathy, also known as idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM), is disease featuring muscle weakness, inflammation of muscles , and in some types, muscle pain . The cause of much inflammatory myopathy is unknown ( idiopathic ), and such cases are classified according to their symptoms and signs , electromyography , MRI , and ...
Idiopathic is a descriptive term used in medicine to denote diseases with an unknown cause or mechanism of apparent spontaneous origin. [10] Examples of idiopathic diseases include: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, and Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis.
Primary familial brain calcification [1] (PFBC), also known as familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (FIBGC) and Fahr's disease, [1] is a rare, [2] genetically dominant or recessive, inherited neurological disorder characterized by abnormal deposits of calcium in areas of the brain that control movement.
Airborne disease, a disease that spreads through the air. Contagious disease, a subset of infectious diseases. Cryptogenic disease, a disease whose cause is currently unknown. Disseminated disease, a disease that is spread throughout the body. Environmental disease; Lifestyle disease, a disease caused largely by lifestyle choices.
Inflammatory demyelinating diseases (IDDs), sometimes called Idiopathic (IIDDs) due to the unknown etiology of some of them, are a heterogenous group of demyelinating diseases - conditions that cause damage to myelin, the protective sheath of nerve fibers - that occur against the background of an acute or chronic inflammatory process.