They contend that an examination sometimes reveals unrelated medical conditions.
Or, they say, patients are suffering from symptoms of some other condition unrelated to tick bites.
This should not be confused with Buerger's disease, an unrelated condition.
New studies also suggest that the death rate for seemingly unrelated conditions, like heart attacks, increases years after surgery.
Radiotherapy for unrelated conditions may be a rare cause.
Most brain aneurysms cause no symptoms and may only be discovered during tests for another, usually unrelated, condition.
On the one hand, courts have generally been reluctant to label a common condition unrelated to trauma or disease as a disability.
Two deaths occurred from conditions unrelated to the heart surgery.
Women, children, and people with unrelated medical conditions are also frequently excluded.
However, endometriosis is sometimes first found during surgery for an unrelated condition.