Sentences with phrase «after a patient completes»

A team of researchers at Mayo Clinic found the elevated risk of heart failure occurred as early as one year after cancer diagnosis and persisted 20 years after patients completed cancer therapy.

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Analysts and investors hoping that HPE had finished streamlining its complicated and massive business after a lengthy split from its printer and personal computer sibling, HP, Inc. (hpq) that completed in November, will have to remain patient.

Only after the diagnostic testing is completed will he recommend a treatment plan, and the majority of patients try less invasive and less costly options first and never have the need for IVF.

I tell my patients to wait a miniumim of 6 months after they complete breast feeding before they undergo breast surgery.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Three years after its planned closing sparked outrage and protests among AIDS activists, the renovation of the city's Chelsea sexual health clinic is largely completed and the clinic has been seeing patients since March 5.

After online registration is completed, patients will then receive a registry identification card in the mail, which must be shown when purchasing medical marijuana at dispensing facility.

After the bath is complete, patients are encouraged to apply ample moisturizer.

Researchers found that the one - month duration HRT, was associated with a significant improvement in recurrence compared to the two - month duration CRT and therefore would be reasonable to consider in men with intermediate risk prostate cancer and who do not have risk factors that could predispose the patient to bladder side effects several years after the treatment is complete.

«Until now, nobody has seen recovery of these functions in a patient so many years after being diagnosed with complete paralysis.»

Six months after completing therapy, 86 percent of the patients were alive with continued responses.

After the PET scans were complete, the researchers calculated how much glucose was being consumed by the most active hemisphere of the patients» brains relative to the healthy controls.

In the 1970s, after completing a residency in psychiatry and a two - year fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine that focused on family therapy with severely psychotic patients, he began working at a mental health clinic in the South Bronx.

After a median follow - up of 11 months, 11 of the 13 patients who responded remain on the study, including one patient who had non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a ROS1 gene fusion who has had a complete response that has been maintained for more than two years.

Participating emergency department physicians — both staff physicians and residents — evaluating patients with abdominal pain, chest pain / shortness of breath, or headache were asked to complete brief surveys after their initial evaluation of the patients and again after receiving CT scan results.

Moreover, patients in complete remission six months after the allograft had a relapse - free survival rate of 60 %.

After a median follow - up of 22 months, the team found that the drugs were safe and shrank tumors in a subset of patients, with an overall response rate of 27 percent, which included complete responses in two patients and partial responses in four patients.

After seeing promising results in phase 1 of the Pediatric Leukemia Adoptive Therapy (PLAT - 02) trial with 93 percent of patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) achieving complete initial remission, researchers at Seattle Children's are continuing their quest to improve the experimental therapy and reduce the rate of relapse, which is about 50 percent.

In the years after the visit, his foundation granted about $ 4 million to Edgerton's lab to find a way to train human patients with complete spinal cord injuries to walk again.

When scientists gave mice an oral drug called LM11A - 31 (designed to prevent neural degeneration in Alzheimer's patients) just hours after a complete spinal cord injury, it limited the death of cells that protect nerve fibers, allowing test rodents to retain their ability to walk and swim.

The final analysis included 74 patients who completed both questionnaires at one - year follow - up after migraine surgery.

At Colchester General Hospital, the researchers looked at MR scans taken both before treatment and six weeks after the patients had completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and found that the patients whose tumors were less heterogeneous — ie more uniform — in terms of texture parameters six weeks after treatment were more likely to survive longer.

In the study by Lisa E. Ishii, M.D., M.S.H., of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and her coauthors, 473 casual observers completed a survey that included images of 13 unique patients before and after surgery, although survey participants were unaware of patients» surgery status.

Three months after completing the treatment, the depression in patients treated online even decreased whereas those treated conventionally only displayed a minimal decline: no more depression could be detected in 57 percent of patients from online therapy compared to 42 percent with conventional therapy.

A multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped responding after nine different treatment regimens experienced a complete remission after receiving an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL019 developed by a team at the University of Pennsylvania.

After chemotherapy, as many as 65 per cent of patients with breast cancer report memory lapses, difficulty concentrating, taking longer to complete tasks and difficulty multitasking.

Cannabis was dispensed through the hospital pharmacy at each site, and patients collected their supply every month after completing the necessary visits and tests.

The MRI - based method also holds promise for scanning patients after their treatment is complete, when the ability to monitor them without radiation would be especially valuable.

Twenty patients underwent complete tumor resection after receiving the drug.

«At most hospitals in the United States, after evaluation in the emergency department, these patients are admitted to the hospital to complete their care.»

Five patients remain in complete remission after a median follow - up of 26 months.

Three of the patients did not complete chemotherapy — one died after consent but prior to chemotherapy; one died during chemotherapy because of an arterial occlusion; and one had a myocardial infarction prior to completion of the four courses of chemotherapy.

«In addition to medication management, we're also teaching lifelong skills for diabetes management that patients can continue doing long after they've completed six months with the clinic,» Morello said.

While some degree of recovery is possible — this varies greatly among patients depending on many factors, notably age — it's seldom complete, and typically grinds to a halt by three months after the stroke has occurred.

After the hearing, the FDA completed its own meta - analysis of the original patient data and found virtually the same heart risks Nissen had reported.

«It is critical to note that nine of the complete response patients have been in remission for over five years after receiving only brentuximab vedotin,» said Dr. Chen, «The fact that these patients are doing so well, even five years out, provides a new perspective for prognosis.»

In this study, the team imaged 43 patients undergoing ECT at three time points, before beginning treatment, after the second ECT session and within one week of completing treatment, resulting in 129 brain scans.

At Colchester General Hospital, the researchers looked at MR scans taken both before treatment and six weeks after the patients had completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and found that the patients whose tumours were less heterogeneous — ie more uniform - in terms of texture parameters six weeks after treatment were more likely to survive longer.

Patients with stage 2, 3, and 4 ovarian cancer who are in complete remission after first - line treatment;

The FDA granted approval to ofatumumab (ARZERRA), a targeted antibody against CD20, for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who are in complete or partial response after at least two lines of therapy.

The current study involved monitoring the patients for one year after completed stem cell transplantation and used mass cytometry to study the different cell types of the immune system and the so called ProSeek method for simultaneous protein analysis.

At baseline, about 90 % of patients in all three treatment groups filled out PRO questionnaires on QoL, and after one or more treatments, about 80 % completed them.

«In keeping with a similar randomized clinical trial previously published in the Lancet and conducted by researchers in Rome in collaboration with us here at King's College London, the STAMPEDE study shows that even patients that after 5 years experienced relapse of diabetes after initial and complete remission of the disease continue to maintain excellent control of their blood sugar levels with minimal or no need for glucose lowering drugs.

At the lowest dose level, one in six patients achieved complete remission after treatment with the anti-CD22 CAR T cells.

After completing the analysis, between 0 and 3 variants were prioritized in most patients.

Currently, gamete donors sign a form giving the IVF patient legal authority to determine the use of embryos created with their gametes after infertility treatment has been completed.

This is supported by post-mortem studies showing a modest loss of mDA axons in the striatum 1 year after PD diagnosis, with a complete loss of mDA striatal innervation in patients 4 years after diagnosis, while some mDA neuronal soma remained [6].

PHILADELPHIA — A multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped responding after nine different treatment regimens experienced a complete remission after receiving an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL019 developed by a team at the University of Pennsylvania.

And in March 2008, researchers announced that drugs in a newer class called aromatase inhibitors (AIs) stopped breast cancer recurrence for postmenopausal patients who had completed tamoxifen treatment (even years after).

In a small study of terminally ill patients, infusions of vitamin C were given twice per week for a week, together with oral vitamin C. Quality of life scales were completed both before and after treatment, and indicated that patients reported better overall physical, emotional and social functioning, as well as decreased disease symptomatology, including fatigue, nausea / vomiting, pain, sleep disturbance, and loss of appetite.

Patients completed a symptom questionnaire and glucose breath test both in basal condition and 1 month after withdrawal of therapy.