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Possible Causes

Urinary Tract Disease

Symptomatic patients can have dysuria, urethral discharge. Females with urethritis usually have cervicitis as well and often are asymptomatic. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] catheters) often have persistent asymptomatic bacteriuria and sometimes pyuria. [msdmanuals.com]

Yeast can cause symptomatic UTI but most often cause asymptomatic colonization of the urinary tract. [infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com]

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Viral Lower Respiratory Infection

Virus may be shed for up to three weeks post infection and also by patients with asymptomatic infections. [virology.uct.ac.za]

Immunity following infection is poor and re-infections are common, although often subclinical. [virology.uct.ac.za]

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Vitamin D Deficiency

It is often seen in older people with osteoporosis. [nps.org.au]

Supplementary requirements are therefore greater in patients with hyperparathyroidism. [nps.org.au]

Diagnosing vitamin D deficiency Vitamin D deficiency is usually asymptomatic, but signs and symptoms can include muscle aches and particularly weakness (proximal limb girdle [nps.org.au]

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Urinary Tract Infection

Health care providers frequently struggle to differentiate UTI from asymptomatic bacteriuria, particularly in patients presenting with nonspecific symptoms. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] catheters) often have persistent asymptomatic bacteriuria and sometimes pyuria. [msdmanuals.com]

Yeast can cause symptomatic UTI but most often cause asymptomatic colonization of the urinary tract. [infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com]

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Vaginitis

Patients may present with vaginal discharge, but this condition is often asymptomatic. [clinicaladvisor.com]

When symptoms occur, female patients often report malodorous discharge which can be associated with vulvo-vaginal irritation and vaginal spotting. [clinicaladvisor.com]

Most men and a significant percentage of women are asymptomatic of TV infection. [clinicaladvisor.com]

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Cystitis

Moreover, catheterized patients often have pyuria and bacteriuria, thus, it is difficult to determine whether cystitis versus asymptomatic bacteriuria is present. [infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com]

It is often difficult to distinguish cystitis from asymptomatic bacteriuria in patients who are catheterized, have altered sensorium, or have neurogenic bladder, and it is [infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com]

Perhaps most important, it is often difficult to determine whether symptoms in a patient with bacteriuria are due to cystitis or to some other cause. [infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com]

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Acute Cystitis

[…] catheters) often have persistent asymptomatic bacteriuria and sometimes pyuria. [merckmanuals.com]

Most patients remain asymptomatic. [web.archive.org]

In patients with indwelling catheters, treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria often fails to clear the bacteriuria and only leads to development of antibiotic-resistant organisms [merckmanuals.com]

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Constipation

A gluten-free diet often leads to improvement in the quality of life, even in patients who considered themselves asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis [ 58 ]. [worldgastroenterology.org]

[…] celiac disease Many patients, especially those diagnosed during screening, report no symptoms even on detailed questioning, and despite the presence of characteristic intestinal [worldgastroenterology.org]

[…] small for gestational age infant Dental enamel defects Dyspepsia, early satiety, anorexia Depression and anxiety, moodiness and irritability Vitamin B 12 deficiency 4.3 Asymptomatic [worldgastroenterology.org]

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Iron Deficiency

Patients with iron deficiency anemia are often asymptomatic and have limited findings on examination. [aafp.org]

A more practical approach is to recheck the patient periodically; no further follow-up is necessary if the patient is asymptomatic and the hematocrit level remains normal. [aafp.org]

7 BLOOD TRANSFUSION There is no universally accepted threshold for transfusing packed red blood cells in patients with iron deficiency anemia. [aafp.org]

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Musculoskeletal Lower Back Pain

This elderly male patient, who was previously asymptomatic, developed low back pain and difficulty with urination. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Due to its insidious nature, it is a difficult diagnosis and one that is often delayed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Adenovirus Infection

Detection of virus in stool may be useful for epidemiological investigation but is often positive for months after acute infection because of asymptomatic shedding. [infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com]

In immunocompromised patients, biopsy specimens may be very useful in documenting the cause of hepatitis or colitis, allowing identification of the virus or diagnostic histopathologic [infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com]

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Anemia

Other Tests: Abnormal evoked potentials may be the first electrodiagnostic finding, even in asymptomatic patients with normal neurologic examination findings. [web.archive.org]

The abnormalities are often referable to a central conduction defect; however, peripheral nerves are also affected. [web.archive.org]

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Hypersensitivity

A gluten-free diet often leads to improvement in the quality of life, even in patients who considered themselves asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis [ 58 ]. [worldgastroenterology.org]

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Ovarian Cyst

Uncomplicated ovarian dermoid tend to be asymptomatic and are often discovered incidentally. [radiopaedia.org]

Hemorrhage: In the case of hemorrhagic cysts, the management of hemorrhage depends on the hemodynamic stability of the patient, but is most often expectantly managed. [clevelandclinicmeded.com]

They tend to be identified in young women, typically around the age of 30 years 1 and are also the most common ovarian neoplasm in patients younger than 20 years 7. [radiopaedia.org]

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Hypertension

Symptoms and Signs Hypertension is usually asymptomatic until complications develop in target organs. [merckmanuals.com]

The ventricle eventually dilates, causing dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure (HF) due to systolic dysfunction often worsened by arteriosclerotic coronary artery disease [merckmanuals.com]

Thoracic aortic dissection is typically a consequence of hypertension; almost all patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms have hypertension. [merckmanuals.com]

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Sexually Transmitted Disease

In the majority of patients mucosal infection is often asymptomatic which may lead to underdiagnosis of DGI. [web.archive.org]

Where testing is available, it is often expensive and geographically inaccessible; and patients often need to wait a long time (or need to return) to receive results. [web.archive.org]

Most patients (40%) infected with genital HSV-2 and two-thirds of the patients infected with HSV-1 are asymptomatic. [web.archive.org]

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Essential Hypertension

Symptoms and Signs Hypertension is usually asymptomatic until complications develop in target organs. [merckmanuals.com]

Thoracic aortic dissection is typically a consequence of hypertension; almost all patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms have hypertension. [merckmanuals.com]

The ventricle eventually dilates, causing dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure (HF) due to systolic dysfunction often worsened by arteriosclerotic coronary artery disease [merckmanuals.com]

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Exostosis

In some patients they are asymptomatic and present as incidental findings on X-ray. Others may complain of pain with pressure and physical activity. [clinicaladvisor.com]

Often, there is a history of chronic paronychia or recurrent ingrown nail with granulation tissue. [clinicaladvisor.com]

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Pyle's Disease

The authors present the case of a sister and a brother who came to our observation at different times and both affected with Pyle's disease with marked valgus of the knee. The clinical cases reported demonstrate how in Pyle's disease with significant valgus of the knee temporary asymmetrical tibial epiphysiodesis[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Heelspur

In these cases, the asymptomatic spur remains. One may often see asymptomatic plantar heel spurs in patients without any symptoms of plantar fasciitis. [podiatrytoday.com]

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Ganglion Cyst

As ganglion cysts carry no malignant risk and are often asymptomatic, reassurance with follow-up, as needed, is a reasonable approach, with up to 50% patient satisfaction. [clinicaladvisor.com]

In this study, the clinical manifestations of ganglion cysts of the cruciate ligaments are varied and often non-specific. [bmcmusculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com]

Patients often need reassurance that the cyst has no malignant potential. Aspiration is helpful for diagnosis, but not treatment. [clinicaladvisor.com]

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Hypoglycemia

decreased epinephrine release) lower glucose threshold needed to trigger symptoms asymptomatic hypoglycemia For this reason, the initial symptom of hypoglycemia in patients [amboss.com]

[…] with HAAF is often confusion. [amboss.com]

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Food Poisoning

However, asymptomatic farmers and pigeon breeders may have positive precipitin test results. 75 Conversely, some patients with clinically confirmed hypersensitivity pneumonitis [doi.org]

However, a positive test result does not necessarily mean that the agent is the cause of the patient's symptoms. [doi.org]

Similarly, detection of antibody by precipitin testing is often used to confirm exposure to a suspected antigen in an evaluation for hypersensitivity pneumonitis. [doi.org]

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Hyperuricemia

[…] with urate levels 7 mg/dL, but 30% in patients with levels 10 mg/dL.32 A lengthy period of asymptomatic hyperuricemia often precedes the first attack of gouty arthritis, [ajmc.com]

[…] with gout in a given population over the specified period of time) was 0.6% in patients with urate levels 10 mg/dL. 32 A lengthy period of asymptomatic hyperuricemia often [ajmc.com]

9.0 mg/dL.7 In another study, the 5-year prevalence of gout (ie, the proportion of patients with gout in a given population over the specified period of time) was 0.6% in patients [ajmc.com]

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Food Allergy

A gluten-free diet often leads to improvement in the quality of life, even in patients who considered themselves asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis [ 58 ]. [web.archive.org]

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Insulin Resistance

asymptomatic in its early stages. [circ.ahajournals.org]

Some patients are diagnosed with the typical symptoms of polyuria and polydipsia, and some develop ketoacidosis. 69 Others are asymptomatic or may have nonspecific findings [circ.ahajournals.org]

4 This increase in frequency of type 2 diabetes seems to parallel the increase in prevalence and severity of obesity in children and adolescents. 68 Type 2 diabetes is often [circ.ahajournals.org]

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Pharyngitis

In an immunocompetent host the infection is often asymptomatic. However, some patients may have a mononucleosis like syndrome with mild pharyngitis. [antimicrobe.org]

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Oral Candidiasis

Infants with thrush may present with pain, poor feeding, or fussiness, but patients are more often asymptomatic and thrush presents no interference with eating. [pedclerk.bsd.uchicago.edu]

OPC is often caused by overgrowth of commensal Candida strains which asymptomatically colonize oral cavity of HIV patients. [doi.org]

Asymptomatic patients do not require treatment. [aafp.org]

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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Asymptomatic patients with GERD often are unaware that they may have a potential life-threatening condition. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Benign Migratory Glossitis

Most often, patients are asymptomatic; however, some patients report increased sensitivity to hot and spicy foods. [emedicine.com]

It is a benign condition and often requires only reassurance in asymptomatic cases as it usually resolves by itself. [medcraveonline.com]

Benign migratory glossitis is rarely detected during routine intraoral examination of pediatric patients. [medcraveonline.com]

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