Sentences with phrase «while younger patients»

In a small prospective study of 365 patients, researchers made a surprising finding: While younger patients had better function and range of motion before surgery, it was the older cohort that saw greater improvement from pre-operative levels after surgery.

Not exact matches

Just consider the ways in which patients are clamoring for more telemedicine and virtual doctor visit options while medical schools are harnessing virtual reality systems like Microsoft's Hololens to teach anatomy to young surgeons.

This pattern had low sensitivity and specificity: relatively few patients with such symptoms develop BD, while many young people without heterotopic symptoms do develop BD.

It is disturbing to enter the tribe's newly renovated dialysis clinic, which treats three shifts of patients each day, and see the young bodies as well as the elderly hooked up to the machines and their pale, drawn faces while their blood is cleansed.

The vast majority of patients — 93 percent — were insured, while 7 percent, or 2,578, lacked coverage; they tended to be younger, male, non-white and unmarried, and more likely to be from regions of lower median income, educational level, and population density.

And while the pain relief seen with lap - band surgery applied to all patients with osteoarthritic knees, researchers found that it was most helpful in the youngest men and women who lost the most weight.

The analysis revealed that while performing working memory tasks, the young patients with concussion had initial activation that was greater than normal, known as hyperactivation, compared to young controls in the right precuneus and right inferior parietal gyrus of the brain, whereas the older patients had hypoactivation (less than normal) compared to older controls in the right precuneus and right inferior frontal gyrus.

Guy Young, MD, director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program and lead physician for study efforts at Children's Hospital Los Angeles explains further, «While the standard medications allow us to «bypass» the need for Factor VIII, they don't do the job as efficiently or as well for these patients.

Using this method, the researchers revealed that the death risk of the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic in the Republic of Korea for patients with an illness prior to MERS infection was as high as 48.2 % for those over 60 years while it was below 15 % for younger patients.

Patients younger than 65 years, had average progression - free survival times of 11.7 months (combination), 5.5 months (nivolumab) and 2.8 months (ipilimumab), while the 262 patients aged between 65 and 75 had average progression - free survival times of 11.1 months, 12.7 months and 2.9 months respePatients younger than 65 years, had average progression - free survival times of 11.7 months (combination), 5.5 months (nivolumab) and 2.8 months (ipilimumab), while the 262 patients aged between 65 and 75 had average progression - free survival times of 11.1 months, 12.7 months and 2.9 months respepatients aged between 65 and 75 had average progression - free survival times of 11.1 months, 12.7 months and 2.9 months respectively.

«The primary goal of GEP testing is to identify patients at high recurrence risk who will benefit from chemotherapy, while allowing patients with a low recurrence risk to forego chemotherapy, potentially offsetting the test costs with savings from reductions in chemotherapy use,» wrote authors led by Young Chandler, PhD, of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, DC.

About 40 percent of the young cancer patients were diagnosed with what's known as stage two tumors, when cancer has spread to lymph nodes surrounding the breast while just 34 percent of older women were diagnosed when cancer had reached stage two.

While DIPGs are usually found in children ages 5 to 10, ACVR1 mutations occurred most frequently in younger - than - average patients.

Researchers are working to improve stem cell transplants so that they don't require immune - depleting chemotherapy beforehand, and clinical trials evaluating novel immunotherapy approaches, such as CAR T cells, that might be able to help young patients while sparing them the debilitating side effects.

Even while juggling four young boys (five if you count my husband), cooking, cleaning, zumba, a busy medical practice, and my work in writing, education, and public speaking, I was able to heal and prevent my own chronic diseases and those of my patients, while staying on budget.

As the Chief Medical Officer of BodyLogicMD, I strive to help my patients achieve optimal health and wellness at all ages while helping them feel younger and more vigorous.

In fact, according to the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) in 2006, an increase in usage of flip - flop sandals by teens and young adults has led to an increase in heel pain.3 ACFAS spokesperson Marybeth Crane, DPM, has reported that practitioners are seeing more heel pain more than ever in patients 15 to 25 years old, noting that heel pain is a marker of plantar fasciitis which accounts for 15 % of all adult foot complaints.3 Furthermore, the ACFAS recommends that patients with heel pain should avoid flat shoes with paper - thin soles and should also avoid walking barefoot since wearing flat shoes (including flip - flops) and walking barefoot provides little cushioning as well as little to no arch support.3 This lack of arch support and cushioning of the heel while wearing flip - flops seems to exacerbate any abnormalities in the biomechanics of foot motion, and may perpetuate heel pain and inflammation.

It takes a while, but be patient young grasshopper, for green juicy goodness awaits.

Since 2008, horror has become even more profitable, a Friday night staple at the box office, and while the original was allowed patient pacing, the sequel feels tailored to a younger, bloodthirsty audience.

In this place of concrete and telephone wires, transients subsisting on very little and tourists lost on the way to the nearby theme park, six - year - old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) runs amok with a shifting group of friends and gets into trouble with the motel's usually patient manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe), while being occasionally looked after by her very young, alternately lackadaisical and ferocious mom, Halley (Bria Vinaite).

Sam, of course, has his O.C. - style melodrama to contend with, since his rich kid adversary from the recent academic decathlon is flirting with his dream girl Laura (Emmy Rossum), while Sam's mom (Sela Ward) sits bedside with a young cancer patient in a cloying side - story (further ruined by Harald Kloser's prosaic score) meant to warm our frostbitten hearts.

He was friendly and patient with our entire family (we have 2 young children) while we were there.

It requires a calm and patient owner who can establish his or her dominance while the dog is still young.

This is typically one side only, while the dog is moving and sometimes without making skin contact Some dogs, more commonly younger patients, develop a scoliosis (twisted spine).

She gets along well with other dogs and is looking for a quiet home (no young children) with patient people that will understand she will be a «work in progress» for quite a while.

As New York City grapples with tracing the contacts of Craig Spencer, a young physician infected with the Ebola virus, It's worth drawing attention to two worthy efforts to tamp down unreasoned fears — President Obama's White House embrace of Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while treating a dying patient, and David Ropeik's fine piece on the perils posed by Ebola fears, published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

While the Rejuvenate hip comes with 16 necks and six stems and targeted younger patients, the ABG II system comes with 10 modular necks, eight left stems, and eight right stems and are supposed to provide the minimum amount of bone stress and enhanced stability.

While hip replacement devices are generally associated with older people, the Stryker Rejuvenate system was marketed with younger patients in mind.

While there, he removed a cast for a young patient who wanted to take a trip with his family, the lawyer said.