Etiologic diagnosis

Stenchever MA, Droegemueller W, Herbst AL, Mishell DR. Primary and secondary dysmenorrhea and premenstrual syndrome Etiology, diagnosis, and management. In Stenchever MA, ed. Comprehensive Gynecolgy. 4th ed. St. Louis Mosby 2001 1065-1078. 

Houpikian P, Raoult D. Blood culture-negative endocarditis in a reference center Etiologic diagnosis of 348 cases. Medicine 2005 84 162-173. 

Combining clinical and epidemiological features with fecal analysis gives important clues to the etiological diagnosis. For example, any patients with diarrheal illness lasting more than 1 day, accompanied by fever, bloody... 

Bellaiche G, Le Pennec MP, Coudat L, Ley G, Slama JL Value of proctosigmoidoscopy with bacteriological culture of colonic biopsies in the etiological diagnosis of post-antibiotic acute diarrhea in adults. Prospective study in 24 patients. Pathol Biol 1997 45 70-715. 

W. G. Robertson M. Peacock (1985) in Urolithiasis Etiology-Diagnosis (Fl.-J. Schneider, ed.) p. 183, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 

In patients with sepsis treatment is indicated before an etiologic diagnosis is made. Patients presenting with severe sepsis need immediate intervention with antimicrobial agents that cover the most likely etiologies in that particular setting. 

LaFranchi S. Congenital hypothyroidism Etiologies, diagnosis, and management. Thyroid. 199 9 735. 

There is a great deal of both popular and professional interest in the etiology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of osteoporosis. The extent of this disease in the United States is a major public health concern. No single cause can be identified. Certainly the influence of hormones, dietary intakes of Ca, fluoride and vitamin D are significant. Our results suggest that it may be prudent to consider the possibility that trace element deficiencies, particularly of Mn, may be of significance. 

Mitchell MC, Boitnott JK, Kaufman S (1982) Budd-Chiari syndrome Etiology, diagnosis and management. Medicine 61 199-218. 

Clinical Syndromes Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment Implications... 

In adults, about 70% of those with acute HAV infection develop jaundice much more commonly than with HBV or HCV. In children, acute HAV infection typically goes unrecognized and is often considered to be a viral gastroenteritis or other viral disease, since only 10% of children become jaundiced. The disease is more prolonged and serious in individuals over age 50. The specific etiological diagnosis is made with serological tests. An IgM antibody (anti-HAV IgM) appears early in the course of illness and persists for an... 

Ineffectiveness Establish an etiological diagnosis and suitable treatment... 

Mah PM, Webster J. Hyperprolactinemia etiology, diagnosis and management. Semin Reprod Med 2002 20 365-373. 

Weinstein L. Bacterial meningitis Specific etiologic diagnosis on the basis of distinctive epidemiologic, pathogenetic, and clinical features. Med Clin North Am 1985 69 219-229. 

Schaefer, GB and Mendelsohn, NJ (2008) Genetic evaluation for the etiologic diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Genet Med 10 4—12. 

Schneider, H.-J., Morphology of urinary tract concretions. In Urolithiasis Etiology, Diagnosis (H.-J. Schneider, ed.), pp. 1-136. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1985. 

Forsythe E. and Ritzline P. D. (1998) An overview of the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer Disease. Phys Ther 78(12), 1325-1331. 

Pneumonia caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae responds to macrolides, fluoroquinolones, and tetracyclines in standard doses. A specific etiological diagnosis in community-acquired pneumonia rarely is made, and length of treatment (typically 7-10 days) is based on clinical response. 

Overall, about 400 toxins have been identified, which are certainly but a small proportion of what is actually found in nature. Out of this remarkable inventory, several are reckoned as typical bioterrorism agents. Presented here are few prominent toxins two protein toxins (botulinum and SEE)—hence detectible and treatable by anti-toxins—and three non-protein toxins (T-2 toxin, aflatoxin and aconitine), hence hardly detectable or treatable by antidotes. Etiological diagnosis of toxins is often extremely complicated. 

Sheehan JP. Fasting hyperglycemia etiology, diagnosis, and treatment. Diabetes Technology Therap 2004 6 525-533. 

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