Dermoid cysts typically present in the 2nd or 3rd decade of life as a slowly enlarging midline neck mass, which may progress to cause dysphagia, while epidermoid cysts manifest earlier in life, becoming evident in infancy.
While C. dubliniensis endogenous endophthalmitis cases have reasonable visual outcome, C. dubliniensis endophthalmitis can progress to cause severe intraocular destruction with complete loss of vision that requires enucleation, particularly in exogenous cases.
The small clot developed in the process may progress to cause a significant TE either locally or distally elsewhere in the body.
In clinical practice, the early identification and characterization of atherosclerotic lesions at risk of progressing to cause myocardial infarction (MI) and ischemic stroke remains challenging.
Over-diagnosis is the detection of lesions that meet the pathologic definition of cancer but will never progress to cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime.
Uncertainties remain about the predictive validity of PSA tests, and their ability to identify tumours that will progress to cause morbidity and mortality (Frankel et al, 2003; Holmstrom et al, 2009).
In all, 30% of intermediate-risk superficial bladder tumours will recur within 2 years despite intravesical treatment with mitomycin C, and around 6% may progress to cause death within a median follow-up of 7 years (Tolley et al, 1996).
4– 8 However, many (if not most) cases with VMA, especially those with minimal or no symptoms, may not progress to cause visual loss, and are safely observed without surgical intervention.
In people with diabetic retinopathy, the major cause of moderate vision loss is diabetic macular oedema, which can progress to cause increased visual impairment and eventual blindness, as defined by the World Health Authority definition of visual acuity (VA) ≤ 6/60 (log MAR ≥ 1.00) in the better-seeing eye 3.
If left untreated, leprosy may progress to cause permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs and eyes.
