In all other cases of acute death, the outcome will be defined as acute death of unidentified cause.
The probands were consecutive patients who were referred to a specialized clinical hematology laboratory because they had at least one episode of thrombosis of unidentified cause.
Our study confirms the power of multiplex MassTag PCR as a rapid diagnostic tool for identifying pathogens for patients with CNS infections and shows that viral and bacterial pathogens were detected in CSF from patients with CNS infections of unidentified cause.
I wanted to tell them no, you idiots, she isn't suffering from "recent, unexpected weight loss" as a result of an "unidentified cause".
As shown in Figure 4, out of 390 cases excluding 10 (2.5%) with an unidentified cause of death out of 400 fatal cases in the hepatitis C group, there were 167 liver disease-related deaths (42.8%; 145 HCC, 19 liver failure, and 3 gastrointestinal bleeding) and 223 deaths from other causes (57.1%; 100 other malignant tumor, 36 pneumonia, 19 heart disease, 15 cerebral vascular disease, 53 others).
Even after careful consideration of all of these factors, discrimination between an as yet unidentified cause of true thyroxine malabsorption and poor L-T4 compliance can prove difficult.
On the other hand, out of 458 cases, excluding 24 (5.0%) with an unidentified cause of death from the 482 fatal cases in the general resident group, there were 7 liver disease-related deaths (1.5%; 5 HCC, 2 liver failure and 0 gastrointestinal bleeding) and 451 deaths from other causes (98.5%).
Ng et al. followed this proof-of-concept experiment with a study that identified mutations in the gene DHODH as the previously unidentified cause of Miller syndrome, a rare Mendelian disease.
A mutation within the ABCC8 gene may be a, so far, unidentified cause of autoantibody-negative childhood-onset diabetes, also after the neonatal period.
These challenges include small numbers of affected patients, unidentified causes of disease, lack of biomarkers for monitoring disease progression, and need for complex care.
Of the unidentified causes, 80% were in medical patients.
