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Idiopathic disease

Glomerulonephritis Glomerular lesions that are characterized by inflammation of the capillary loops of the glomerulus. These lesions are generally caused by immunologic, vascular, or other idiopathic diseases. Glomerulonephritis can lead to high blood pressure and loss of kidney function. [Pg.1567]

Pulmonary hypertension is a rare idiopathic disease that mainly affects young adults. It leads to right-sided heart failure and frequently is fatal. Long-term therapy with PGI2 (epoprostenol, Flolan) has either delayed or precluded the need for lung or heart-lung transplantation in a number of patients. In addition, many affected individuals have had a marked improvement in symptoms after receiving treatment... [Pg.233]

In the present article, an attempt has been made to give not only a brief account of melanin and melanogenesis but also to discuss the present state of research on vitiligo, an idiopathic disease of pigmentary disorder of the skin. [Pg.133]

LIP rarely occurs as an idiopathic disease. It is usually seen in conjunction with systemic disorders, most notably human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, Sjogren s syndrome, and variable immunodeficiency syndromes (Swigris et al. 2002). LIP is more common... [Pg.342]

Fibromuscular dysplasia is an idiopathic disease of small and medium sized arteries. The authors postulated that cocaine had altered transforming growth factor beta, which had caused intimal fibroplasia. [Pg.62]

LIP is part of a spectrum of pulmonary lymphoid proliferations that includes follicular bronchitis/bronchioUtis, NLH, and MALT B-cell lymphoma (4,5). They can be difficult to differentiate from each other (5,6). Indeed, a substantial percentage of the cases that were initially classified by Averill Liebow (3) as LIP were subsequently found to be mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas. As a result, LIP was excluded from the classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias for several decades. Today, it is clear that the majority of patients with LIP have associated immunologic disorders, dysproteinemias or viral infections, so that LIP can be viewed as a morphologic pattern of lung injury that results from multiple causes with varying pathogenetic mechanisms rather than a distinct disease entity (1). However, a few cases of LIP do present as idiopathic disease. LIP therefore is still included in recent classifications of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (7). [Pg.405]

Although periarteritis nodosa is an idiopathic disease, its appearance after the treatment with disulfiram has now been described twice. In both cases the symptomatology started 25 days after the beginning of disulfiram treatment, this delay being compatible with an immunological reaction. In view of the massive use of this substance, both reports may be a mere coincidence, but the possibility that this could be a (rare) complication must be borne in mind. [Pg.382]


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