Examples of differential diagnosis in the following topics:
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- Medical diagnosis or the actual process of making a diagnosis is a cognitive process.
- A diagnostic test is any kind of medical test performed to aid in the diagnosis or detection of disease.
- The method of differential diagnosis is based on finding as many candidate diseases or conditions as possible that could possibly cause the signs or symptoms, followed by a process of elimination or at least of rendering the entries more or less probable by further medical tests and other processing until, to reach the point where only one candidate disease or condition remains as probable.
- When making a medical diagnosis, a lag time is a delay in time until a step towards diagnosis of a disease or condition is made.
- Types of lag times are mainly onset-to-medical encounter lag time or the time from onset of symptoms until visiting a health care provider and encounter-to-diagnosis lag time or the time from first medical encounter to diagnosis.
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- There is no single test that can fully diagnose fibromyalgia, and as such, fibromyalgia is typically a diagnosis of exclusion.
- In general, most doctors diagnose patients with a process called differential diagnosis, which means that doctors consider all of the possible things that might be wrong with the patient based on the patient's symptoms, gender, age, geographic location, medical history, and other factors.
- They then narrow down the diagnosis by eliminating the possible disorders one by one until only fibromyalgia is left.
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- It is a classical item in differential diagnosis, because its symptoms vary widely and come and go unpredictably.
- Diagnosis can thus be elusive, with some people suffering unexplained symptoms of untreated SLE for years.
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- Even with an early diagnosis and a restricted diet, however, some individuals with galactosemia experience long-term complications such as speech difficulties, learning disabilities, neurological impairment (e.g. tremors, etc. ), and ovarian failure in females.
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- This test is useful for bacteria such as syphilis spirochete, which are not readily cultivated in a laboratory, or if a rapid diagnosis is essential for the survival of a patient.
- In most cases, specimens are also inoculated into differential media that define such characteristics as fermentation patters (mannitol salt and MacConkey agar) and as reactions in blood (blood agar).
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- Because early diagnosis and treatment is important, after age 40, siblings and children of someone with Paget's disease may wish to have an alkaline phosphatase blood test every two or three years.
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- For example, theorists of stigma care little about whether or not Emily has a psychiatric diagnosis, but rather how Sally perceives Emily's psychiatric diagnosis and subsequently treats Emily differently.
- For example, theorists of stigma care little about whether Emily has a psychiatric diagnosis, but rather how Sally perceives Emily's psychiatric diagnosis and subsequently treats Emily differently.
- In Conceptualizing Stigma (2001), sociologists Jo Phelan and Bruce Link interpret stigma as the convergence of four different factors: (1) differentiation and labeling of various segments of society; (2) linking the labeling of different social demographics to prejudices about these individuals; (3) the development of an us-versus-them ethic; and (4) disadvantaging the people who are labeled and placed in the "them" category.
- For example, theorists of stigma care little about whether Emily has a psychiatric diagnosis, but rather on how Sally perceives Emily's psychiatric diagnosis and, subsequently, treats Emily differently.
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- During a Streptococcus infection, mature antigen-presenting cells, such as B cells, present the bacterial antigen to CD4-T cells which differentiate into helper T2 cells.
- Diagnosis of rheumatic fever can be made when two of the major criteria, or one major plus two minor criteria, are present along with evidence of streptococcal infection.
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- Recently, there has been an increase in babesiosis diagnosis due to an increase in the number of individuals with immunodeficiencies coming into contact with ticks.
- In the blood, the parasites will then differentiate into male and female gametes.
- Diagnosis of babesiosis is performed using a Giemsa-test for parasitic identification.
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- Certain mutations can trigger leukemia by activating oncogenes or deactivating tumor suppressor genes, thereby disrupting the regulation of cell death, differentiation or division.
- Diagnosis is usually based on repeated complete blood counts and a bone marrow examination following observation of the symptoms.
- Following diagnosis, blood chemistry tests can be used to determine the degree of liver and kidney damage or the effects of chemotherapy on the patient.