Aplastic Anemia is a terrible disease which is idiopathic about half the time. Idiopathic covers any disease that is of uncertain or unknown origin. For example, acute idiopathic polyneuritis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, idiopathic scoliosis, etc. In other words, the all-important THEY have not yet figured out what caused it. The word idiopathic comes from the New Latin idiopathia (primary disease), from the Greek idiopatheia, from idio-, from idios (one's own, personal) + -patheia, -pathic (feeling, suffering). It is an appropriate etymology since AA is truly a curse. It was more of a curse before we were able to manage bone marrow transplants--but there is no guarantee that everyone will find a donor. Now there is even more help to be found in stem cell research. So the prospects of this disease are becoming brighter all of the time.

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