It is possible that our increased times to laboratory and radiology results are secondary to processes external to the ED or the processing of information on the receiving end of CPOE (i.e., radiology or laboratory services).
In fact, elevations of CA19.9 serum levels can be secondary to the necroinflammatory processes, to small bile ducts alterations, to the presence of regeneration nodules, and to the hyper production of raw collagen, which all are typical expression signs of chronic hepatitis progression to liver cirrhosis.
Because most age-related diseases are likely to be secondary to the aging process itself, the discovery of such compounds could have a profound public health impact by reducing disease incidence and possibly extending the quality and length of the human lifespan.
Therefore, IgG3 deficiency may be secondary to the disease process itself.
Between 1 July 2010 and 31 July 2011 we recruited all patients who presented to the Department of Neurology with a speech and language disorder suspected to be secondary to a degenerative process.
However, the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal dysmotility in SSc patients might be secondary to an independent ischemic process to local nerves rather than on a systemic autonomic dysfunction [ 5, 54, 74, 75].
Since presenilin inactivation is targeted specifically to postmitotic excitatory neurons, rather than neural stem cells, this increase in neurogenesis is likely to be secondary to functional defects and neurodegenerative processes occurring in the hippocampus of Psen cDKO mice.
Some authors have suggested that synovitis might be secondary to a more basic disease process first occurring within medullary bone as primary inflammatory infiltrate [4, 5, 6, 7], but this is subject to debate and not universally accepted [8].
Alterations in the shape of the delay gradient may be directly linked to dopamine dysfunction, but may also be secondary to changes in attention and memory processes.
Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis produces chronic inflammation resulting in the remodelling of the lung and malignancy may be secondary to these chronic inflammatory and fibrotic processes (Matsushita et al, 1995; Hubbard et al, 2000c).
