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    mental suffering via medical beliefs or a practitioner's statements. Some iatrogenic events are obvious, like amputation of the wrong limb, whereas others...
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    Iatrogenic anemia, also known as nosocomial anemia or hospital-acquired anemia, is a condition in which a person develops anemia due to medical interventions...
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    are typically distinguished: calciphylaxis, idiopathic calcification, iatrogenic calcification, dystrophic calcification, and metastatic calcification...
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    injury in medicine is by misdiagnosis and medical error. These result in iatrogenic injury and from medical error flows a cascade of effects and results often...
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    syndrome is the use of prescribed glucocorticoids to treat other diseases (iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome). Glucocorticoids are used in treatment of a variety...
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    Hypocholesterolemia is the presence of abnormally low (hypo-) levels of cholesterol in the blood (-emia). A defect in the body's production of cholesterol...
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    Water intoxication, also known as water poisoning, hyperhydration, overhydration or water toxemia is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions...
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  • Drug-induced fever is a symptom of an adverse drug reaction wherein the administration of drugs intended to help a patient causes a hypermetabolic state...
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    probes are inserted into the damaged area. ICI confers a 3.4% risk of iatrogenic dissection in people with SCAD compared to 0.2% risk in the general population...
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    Tongue diseases can be congenital or acquired, and are multiple in number. Considered according to a surgical sieve, some example conditions which can...
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    The organic anion transporter 1 (OAT1) also known as solute carrier family 22 member 6 (SLC22A6) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC22A6...
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    from a few hours to several days, or up to one week.[citation needed] Iatrogenic damage to the heart and lungs during the procedure is a concern. Scopes...
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    main forms, the sporadic (sCJD), the hereditary/familial (fCJD), the iatrogenic (iCJD) and the variant form (vCJD). These conditions form a spectrum of...
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    ischaemic lesions, infectious lesions, metabolic/endocrine lesions, iatrogenic lesions. Risk factors Sex, age, occupation, history of physical trauma...
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    EU study determined that "87% of cases were sporadic, 8% genetic, 5% iatrogenic and less than 1% variant." Testing for CJD has historically been problematic...
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    Leach, G. E. (2003). "Urethrolysis with martius labial fat pad graft for iatrogenic bladder outlet obstruction". Urology. 61 (4): 21–25. doi:10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00117-1...
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  • extrapolation suggests that 180,000 people die each year partly as a result of iatrogenic injury. The World Health Organization registered 14 million new cases...
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    Brain injury (BI) is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. Brain injuries occur due to a wide range of internal and external factors. In general...
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    arterial dissection in the carotid artery or aorta or as a result of iatrogenic arterial injury (e.g., after angiography). An inadequate flow of blood...
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  • Syndemic (section Iatrogenic)
    Syndemics is the evaluation of how social and health conditions arise, in what ways they interact, and what upstream drivers may produce their interactions...
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  • either be a congenital anomaly or iatrogenic. Congenital symmastia is a rare condition with few published cases. Iatrogenic symmastia may occur following...
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    postoperative care (sometimes intensive care) for the patient to recover from the iatrogenic trauma inflicted by the procedure. The duration of surgery can span from...
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  • APro Prolactin Pituitary prolactinomas, aging pituitary L A AIns Insulin Iatrogenic, local injection L A ASPCd Lung surfactant protein Lung L A ACor Corneodesmosin...
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    gastrointestinal bleeding Vascular Ruptured aneurysm Aortic transection Iatrogenic injury Bleeding arises due to either traumatic injury, underlying medical...
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    1056/NEJM196406042702306. PMID 14132827. Keith L, Oleszczuk JJ (January 1999). "Iatrogenic multiple birth, multiple pregnancy and assisted reproductive technologies"...
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    several concurrent causes. Trauma, auto-immune disorders, infection and iatrogenic (medicine-related) factors can all cause bursitis. Bursitis is commonly...
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    Anasarca (section Iatrogenic)
    Anasarca is a severe and generalized form of edema, with subcutaneous tissue swelling throughout the body. Unlike typical edema, which almost everyone...
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  • A complication in medicine, or medical complication, is an unfavorable result of a disease, health condition, or treatment. Complications may adversely...
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    injury) is the traumatic damage of the bile ducts. It is most commonly an iatrogenic complication of cholecystectomy — surgical removal of gall bladder, but...
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    cause is an iatrogenic injury during hip surgery or an intramuscular injection. Lesions of the inferior gluteal nerve occur through iatrogenic injuries like...
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