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Idiopathic disease

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improve the understanding of causes of diseases and the classification of diseases; thus, regarding any particular condition or disease, as more root causes are discovered and as events that seemed spontaneous have their origins revealed, the percentage of cases designated as idiopathic decreases.
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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. In these cases, the origin of the condition is said to be
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and approximately 60% of children with congenital disabilities (disabilities which are apparent from birth) do not have a definitive diagnosis to explain the cause of their difficulties".
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is used "when a child or young adult is believed to have a genetic condition and testing has failed to identify its genetic cause". It is believed that "about half (50%) of children with
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Ahmad, Y; Howard, JP; Arnold, A; Shin, MS; Cook, C; Petraco, R; Demir, O; Williams, L; Iglesias, JF; Sutaria, N; Malik, I; Davies, J; Mayet, J; Francis, D; Sen, S (24 March 2018).
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for conditions to which the literal sense of the word applies (that is, those whose pathophysiology has existed since the
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and a sense that is contradistinguished from it. Some disease classifications prefer the use of the synonymous term
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in the sense of "secondary to some other condition." Another, less common synonym is
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Diseases where the cause is seen as wholly or partly idiopathic include:
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Disease with unknown pathogenesis or apparently spontaneous origin
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Index

Idiopathic
disease
spontaneous
focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
ankylosing spondylitis
epilepsy
stroke
Greek
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Idiopathic chronic fatigue
Granulomatous prostatitis
medical science
synonymous
essential hypertension
essential thrombocythemia
essential tremor
primary biliary cholangitis
crypto-
sense
cryptogenic stroke
epilepsy
congenital conditions
neonatal
learning disabilities
Diagnosis of exclusion
Embolic stroke of undetermined source
Functional disorder
Idiosyncratic drug reaction

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