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In fact, it is fair to hypothesize that several diseases thought to be of "idiopathic" origin may be triggered by chronic infections with CMV and other infectious agents in the genetically susceptible host.
Developmental stuttering evolves before puberty, usually between two and five years of age, without apparent brain damage or other known cause (“idiopathic”).
The concept of lung fibroblasts as effector cells in the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has recently evolved [ 1 2 ] . Lung fibroblasts respond, in vitro , to inflammatory cytokines by producing growth factors and collagen, resulting in fibroblast proliferation and extracellular matrix deposition [ 2 3 4 ] . In addition, activated lung fibroblasts have been shown to produce large amounts of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, in vitro , and hence, these cells may also have a role as effector-inflammatory cells [ 1 2 ] . This capacity to produce both inflammatory and fibrotic factors could mean that phenotypically altered lung fibroblasts act simultaneously as effector and target cells, via paracrine and autocrine mechanisms, perpetuating the fibrotic process [ 2 ] .
The other four of the 13 patients had hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (46,XY); two of this group had Kallmann's syndrome and two had idiopathic cryptorchidism.
Four cases of idiopathic hypotension with low SVR were identified in our patients.