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Idiopathic hypersomnia
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Idiopathic hypersomnia is excessive sleeping (hypersomnia) without obvious cause.
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Scarring throughout the lungs without an identifiable cause. See: Pulmonary fibrosis.
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IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION - A condition where there is increased blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries with otherwise normal heart and lungs.
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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body to destroy its platelets, the blood cells necessary to control bleeding.
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Idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia is an acquired disease that occurs when antibodies form against the person's own red blood cells. In the idiopathic form of this disease, the cause is unknown.
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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
What Is Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis? ( Other Names: Ankylosing hyperostosis, Spondylitis ossificans ligamentosa, Vertebral osteophytosis) ...
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Idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis is rare. It occurs in children between the ages of 8 and 14 or during times of rapid growth. There is no known cause for this type of osteoporosis, in which there is too little bone formation or excessive bone loss.
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Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies - In this group of muscle diseases, the cause of the muscle inflammation is unknown (idiopathic). There are three major types: dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion body myositis.
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: When the cause isn't known
Although doctors can determine why some people develop interstitial lung disease, in most cases the cause isn't known.
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IDIOPATHIC: Without a known cause.
IDIOTYPES: The unique and characteristic parts of an antibody's variable region, which can themselves serve as antigens. See Antibodies; Antigen.
IDU: Injection drug use or user.
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Idiopathic loss, which means there is no diagnosable cause for the condition.
Anosmia symptoms ...
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Chronic Idiopathic Myelofibrosis
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Treatment overview
Current clinical trials ...
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chronic idiopathic urticaria - adults and children age 12 and over, 60 mg twice daily; children 6 to 11 years of age, 30 mg twice daily.
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Hydrocephalus - idiopathic; Hydrocephalus - adult; Hydrocephalus - communicating, "water on the brain"
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Many nosebleeds are idiopathic - that is there is no obvious cause, or the cause is unknown. But in children frequent colds and the drying effect of central heating can cause irritation of the delicate mucus membrane that lines the nose.
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Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura)
Bleeding Disorders
Blood Transfusion
Burkitt's Lymphoma
Chelation Treatment (Chelation Therapy)
Chelation Therapy
Christmas Disease (Hemophilia B)
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia ...
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Arriving at a diagnosis of idiopathic FSGS requires the identification of focal scarring and the elimination of possible systemic causes such as diabetes or an immune response to infection.
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He called it an invariably fatal "idiopathic anemia." The "idiopathic" was a frank admission that the cause of this illness was wholly unknown.
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In over a third of all fainting episodes, no cause can be found, and we classify the disease as “idiopathic syncope.
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Atrial fibrillation may be idiopathic, the result of rheumatic mitral valve disease (see rheumatic fever) in young people or hypertensive heart disease (see hypertension) and arteriosclerotic heart diseases (see arteriosclerosis) in older people.
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The cause of about 80 to 85 percent of all scoliosis cases is unknown (idiopathic), according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
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When a cause for scoliosis cannot be found, it is called idiopathic scoliosis. In idiopathic scoliosis some of the vertebrae are rotated because the muscles attaching the vertebrae to the ribs may not be pulling with equal force.
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The most common type of seizure is idiopathic (ID-ee-o-PATH-ik) epilepsy, a form of epilepsy whose cause is not known. This brain disease causes recurrent attacks.
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idiopathic cardiomyopathy
infective endocarditis
ischemic cardiomyopathy
left-sided heart failure
mesothelioma (malignant)
metastatic cancer to the lung
mitral regurgitation; acute
mitral regurgitation; chronic
mitral valve prolapse ...
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Aplastic anemia falls into three basic categories, based on the origin of its cause: idiopathic, acquired, and hereditary.
In about 60% of cases, aplastic anemia is considered to be idiopathic, meaning that the cause of the disorder is unknown.
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This disease is marked by an enlarged spleen and progressive anemia. Also called chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, primary myelofibrosis, myelosclerosis with myeloid metaplasia, and idiopathic myelofibrosis.
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WHAT CAUSES SCOLIOSIS?
Most cases of scoliosis are idiopathic, meaning the cause is unknown. Scoliosis is sometimes associated with disorders affecting the nerves and muscles, such as muscular dystrophy.
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ankylosing spondylitis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis)
Sever's disease (relatively common condition in active growing children and adolescents)
Soft-tissue sarcoma of the foot (rare)
Stress fractures ...
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says nothing about the type of seizure or cause of the seizure, only that the seizures happen again and again. A stricter definition of the term requires that the seizures have no known underlying cause. This may also be called primary or idiopathic ...
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Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria
Physical Urticaria
Aquagenic Urticaria
Cholinergic Urticaria
Cold-Induced Urticaria (cold urticaria)
Dermographism (symptomatic dermographism)
Delayed Pressure Urticaria
Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis ...
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