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Idiopathic Disease

Idiopathic disease refers to any medical condition whose cause remains unknown or poorly understood despite clinical investigation. When physicians cannot identify a specific etiology—whether infectious, genetic, environmental, or otherwise—a condition is classified as idiopathic, presenting unique challenges for di…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 24× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2997-1977

Overview

Idiopathic disease refers to any medical condition whose cause remains unknown or poorly understood despite clinical investigation. When physicians cannot identify a specific etiology—whether infectious, genetic, environmental, or otherwise—a condition is classified as idiopathic, presenting unique challenges for diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Research published in Diseases has examined idiopathic conditions across multiple organ systems and clinical contexts. Studies have investigated impulse control disorders in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease within specific populations, explored rare presentations such as retroperitoneal fibrosis leading to acute renal failure, and analyzed granulomatous gastritis through clinicopathologic examination of biopsy specimens. Additional work has applied computational approaches to understand genetic factors, including transcription factor binding sites associated with disease susceptibility, and documented clinical outcomes in complex cases requiring interventions such as lung transplantation. Understanding idiopathic diseases matters because these conditions affect patient quality of life and clinical decision-making despite the absence of known causative mechanisms. Research in this area contributes to recognizing disease patterns, identifying potential genetic or molecular associations, and improving management strategies even when definitive etiologies remain elusive.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2019

A Rare Cause of Acute Renal Failure: Retroperitoneal Fibrosis

Caner EdizCorresponding author
Department of Urology, University of Health Sciences (Istanbul), Sultan Abdulhamid Han Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Journal of Clinical Case Reports and Images Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-19-3098

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 24 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Nov 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Journal of Diseases (ISSN 2997-1977).

Journal editorial board
Charles Edward Rupprecht · United States Dr. Md. Rabiul Islam · Bangladesh Madalena Barroso · Germany

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