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Before the treatment of a disease it is necessary to make a diagnosis, determine its aetiology (the cause of the disease), pathogenesis i.e. the way and mechanism of its development, as well as the symptoms by which it can be revealed.

• Before the treatment of a disease it is necessary to make a diagnosis, determine its aetiology (the cause of the disease), pathogenesis i.e. the way and mechanism of its development, as well as the symptoms by which it can be revealed.
• A number of different procedures are used to establish a diagnosis: history-taking, physical examination, which includes visual examination, palpation, percussion, auscultation, laboratory studies, consisting of urinalysis, blood, sputum and other analyses, instrumental studies, for example, taking electrocardiograms or cystoscopy, X-ray examination and others.