Although there are no biological tests which confirm bipolar disorder, tests may be carried out to exclude medical illnesses such as hypo-or hyperthyroidism, metabolic disturbance, a systemic infection or chronic disease, and syphilis or HIV infection.

* Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease, or sarcoidosis, a chronic inflammatory systemic disease

However, in a small minority of patients with renal failure, at least four such agents have been associated with development of the rare nodular inflammatory disease nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.

A poor diet can have an injurious impact on health, causing deficiency diseases such as scurvy and kwashiorkor ; health-threatening conditions like obesity and metabolic syndrome ; and such common chronic systemic diseases as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis.

Examples include acquired conditions such as systemic vasculitides ( e. g. ANCA vasculitis ) and autoimmune diseases ( e. g., lupus ), as well as congenital or genetic conditions such as polycystic kidney disease.

* Patients with rheumatologic disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythematosus and polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis are at increased risk of osteoporosis, either as part of their disease or because of other risk factors ( notably corticosteroid therapy ).

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (" ADPKD ", " autosomal dominant PKD " or " Adult-onset PKD ") is an inherited systemic disorder that predominantly affects the kidneys, but may affect other organs including the liver, pancreas, brain, and arterial blood vessels.

Increased levels of proteasome activity correlate with disease activity and have been implicated in autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.

Common causes of secondary intracranial hypertension include obstructive sleep apnea ( a sleep-related breathing disorder ), systemic lupus erythematosis ( SLE ), chronic kidney disease, and Behçet's disease.

Although the cause of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown, autoimmunity plays a pivotal role in both its chronicity and progression, and RA is considered a systemic autoimmune disease.

Systemic sclerosis or systemic scleroderma is a systemic autoimmune disease or systemic connective tissue disease that is a subtype of scleroderma.

These include antithymocyte globulin and mycophenolate mofetil ; some reports have reported improvements in the skin symptoms as well as delaying the progress of systemic disease, but neither of them have been subjected to large clinical trials.

Chronic inflammatory conditions of the brain may affect cognition in the long term, including Behçet's disease, multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis, Sjögren's syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus.

Disorders such as Wilson's disease, various endocrinological disorders, numerous metabolic disturbances, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosis, porphyria, sarcoidosis, and many others can present with psychosis.

Drop or remove tongues from the head, and send the head down the line on head hooks or head racks for inspection of the lymph nodes for signs of systemic disease.

Diabetes is a systemic disease because it involves many parts of the body such as the pancreas, eyes, kidneys, heart, and nerves.

Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

Topical analgesia is generally recommended to avoid systemic side-effects.

However, many have argued that the usefulness of these laws is vastly inadequate in terms of controlling government actions, largely because of institutional and systemic obstacles like a weak judiciary, poorly trained judges and lawyers, and corruption.

The process of bone resorption by the osteoclasts releases stored calcium into the systemic circulation and is an important process in regulating calcium balance.

With the exception of the few dietary studies in the urinary tract infection section, conventional medicine has not used most of these alternatives, since limited scientific evidence proves either their effectiveness or subclinical systemic candidiasis is a viable diagnosis.

The main purpose of these approaches is to deliver a very high dose of chemotherapy to tumor sites without causing overwhelming systemic damage.

The main purpose of these approaches is to deliver a very high dose of chemotherapy to tumour sites without causing overwhelming systemic damage.

This concept of asha versus the druj should not be confused with the good-versus-evil battle evident in western religions, for although both forms of opposition express moral conflict, the asha versus druj concept is more systemic and less personal, representing, for instance, chaos ( that opposes order ); or " uncreation ", evident as natural decay ( that opposes creation ); or more simply " the lie " ( that opposes truth, righteousness ).

Dialectical materialism is a strand of Marxism, synthesizing Hegel's dialectics, which proposes that every economic order grows to a state of maximum efficiency, while simultaneously developing internal contradictions and weaknesses that contribute to its systemic decay.

A mild and non-damaging intermittent hypoxia is used intentionally during altitude trainings to develop an athletic performance adaptation at both the systemic and cellular level.

Cellular recipients of a particular hormonal signal may be one of several cell types that reside within a number of different tissues, as is the case for insulin, which triggers a diverse range of systemic physiological effects.

; Pharmacology: While it is well established that the skin provides an ideal site for the administration of local and systemic drugs, it presents a formidable barrier to the permeation of most substances.

FIO is part of the U. S. Department of the Treasury and it monitors all aspects of the insurance industry, including identifying issues or gaps in the regulation of insurers that may contribute to a systemic crisis in the insurance industry or in the U. S. financial system.

In severe cases and those involving multiple conditions in addition to the cause of the neuralgia, there is no substitute for comprehensive palliative therapy including systemic NSAIDs, opioids, muscle relaxants, intermittent corticosteroids and other agents if needed and adjuncts and potentiators to increase the power of the analgesics in addition to the topical preparation and physical and alternative modalities such as physiotherapy, acupuncture, biofeedback and related modalities, nutritional approaches and many others relevant to each case.

Even the addition of the opioid tramadol to topical preparations is not known to be an adequate replacement for systemic opioids in cases where they can be useful and efficacious.

A synchronic or systemic approach is a more obviously ' metaphilosophical ' than a historic or a diachronic one.

Halliday ) ( born 13 April 1925, Leeds, Yorkshire, England ) is a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language.

But Halliday ’ s conception of grammar – or ‘ lexicogrammar ’ ( a term he coined to argue that lexis and grammar are part of the same phenomenon ) – is based on a more general theory of language as a social semiotic resource, or a ‘ meaning potential ’ ( see systemic functional linguistics ).

Halliday's " systemic grammar " is a semiotic account of grammar, because of this orientation to choice.

Halliday's grammar is not just systemic, but systemic functional.

More recently, MA Taylor and M Fink crystallized the present image of melancholia as a systemic disorder that is identifiable by depressive mood rating scales, verified by the present of abnormal cortisol metabolism ( abnormal dexamethasone suppression test ), and validated by rapid and effective remission with ECT or tricyclic antidepressant agents.

Therefore, systemic intravenous treatment with corticosteroids, which may quicken the healing of the optic nerve, is often recommended.

It is an ocular manifestation of systemic disease which affects up to 80 % of all patients who have had diabetes for 10 years or more.

Other potential causes that affects the valve directly include: Marfan's syndrome, Ehlers – Danlos syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis and systemic lupus erythematosus.

Further, IgA nephropathy typically only affects the kidneys while HSP is a systemic disease.

While DM most frequently affects the skin and muscles, it is a systemic disorder that may also affect the joints, the esophagus, the lungs, and, less commonly, the heart.

Eocomposition should not be confused or conflated with other systemic approaches to writing such as activity theory, which do not account for the dynamic relationship between writing and place but posit a transcendent " context " that affects writing.