Sentences with phrase «after a patient undergoing»

Gene therapy death The Food and Drug Administration stopped a gene therapy trial this week after a patient undergoing the experimental treatment for a severe form of arthritis had a fatal reaction.

A minimally invasive treatment that reduces urinary tract symptoms for men with enlarged prostates maintains its effectiveness for at least three years after patients undergo the therapy, according to research being presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting today.

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Usually he or she undergoes fusion surgery to stabilize the spine — surgery after which the patient is likely to believe, despite surgeon's counsel to the opposite, that he or she will get up and walk.

Patients who underwent timed intrauterine insemination after the Cap - Score Test had a higher chance of pregnancy than under other treatment regimens for unexplained infertility.

PFC offers CCS as an option for patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), as a treatment for recurrent miscarriage, prevention of aneuploidy in pregnancy, and for women that wish to improve implantation rates, reduce miscarriage rates, and reduce the risk of multiple pregnancy after IVF.

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

After counseling, the ultimate decision to undergo TOLAC or a repeat cesarean delivery should be made by the patient in consultation with her obstetrician or obstetric care provider.

There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

Yannick Le Manach, M.D., Ph.D., of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and colleagues examined if there was a difference in hospital mortality among patients who underwent hip fracture surgery relative to an elective THR, after adjustment for age, sex, and preoperative medical conditions.

As this study focuses on neurofeedback effects on EEG, sleep and quality of life in insomnia patients, insomnia patients underwent this procedure before and after real as well as placebo neurofeedback training.

German police took action on 4 August after two patients from the Netherlands and one from Belgium died shortly after undergoing treatment at the Biological Cancer Centre, run by alternative practitioner Klaus Ross in the town of Brüggen, Germany, 50 kilometers west of Düsseldorf.

The researchers now plan to start a study in the EU in which patients will undergo SN mapping (lymphoscintigraphy) after injection of both types of radiotracers.

«Previous studies examined patients undergoing hip - fracture repair or other urgent surgeries, in which initial blood samples were collected after a significant stressor had already occurred,» she added.

The number of breast cancer patients undergoing immediate breast reconstruction operations after mastectomy has grown steadily over the past 15 years, most notably among women who were once considered too high - risk for reconstruction procedures according to new research findings published in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Professor Allan Pacey, Editor in Chief of Human Fertility said «This is really useful information that doctors can use to counsel patients about their chances of pregnancy after undergoing assisted conception.

The investigators compared the results of patients who underwent PNB before and after the USPSTF recommendations.

«When compared to patients who underwent PNB in the 30 months prior to the USPSTF recommendation, those who underwent PNB in the 30 months after had a 33 % higher relative risk of being diagnosed with high risk PCa.

These patients were already candidates for standard DBS and agreed to undergo the nerve graft after being informed of the risks and benefits.

There were 2,636 patients who underwent a total knee replacement and 792 who underwent a total hip replacement after bariatric surgery.

After six hours on the operating table, Penner became the first patient ever to undergo a closed - chest robotic coronary bypass on a beating heart.

Tissue samples were collected from patients who were undergoing biopsies after a diagnosis of IBD, and from patients suffering colon cancer whose tissues were unaffected by IBD - linked changes.

The researchers note «strong indications» that patients» survival after THA is improving, and that patients undergoing THA tend to live longer than a matched general population.

After being treated by health care teams at National Jewish Health, children who underwent in - patient therapy saw an average reduction in symptoms of 71 percent, they maintained healthy skin a month after returning home, and, perhaps most important, did so without relying solely on medications typically prescribed to these patiAfter being treated by health care teams at National Jewish Health, children who underwent in - patient therapy saw an average reduction in symptoms of 71 percent, they maintained healthy skin a month after returning home, and, perhaps most important, did so without relying solely on medications typically prescribed to these patiafter returning home, and, perhaps most important, did so without relying solely on medications typically prescribed to these patients.

Patients with esophageal cancer who survive 5 years after undergoing surgery might breathe a sigh of relief and become complacent about continued monitoring.

Several days after imaging, the patient underwent brain surgery; using the images as a guide, surgeons safely removed most of her tumor.

Monitoring immune cell activity — including phenotyping immune cell subsets, tracking cell proliferation, and measuring cytokine production — can provide insights into the overall status of immune function in patients, particularly those undergoing immunosuppression after transplants, enduring cancer treatment, or suffering from autoimmune disease or other pathologies that affect the immune system.

By modeling indirect savings of the individual returning to the work force after surgery, researchers found that the lifetime societal net benefit for patients undergoing knee replacement averages between $ 10,000 and $ 30,000.

Results from a clinical trial investigating a new T cell receptor (TCR) therapy that uses a person's own immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells demonstrated a clinical response in 80 percent of multiple myeloma patients with advanced disease after undergoing autologous stem cell transplants (ASCT).

Among patients with unexplained pain after undergoing total joint replacement with metal - containing components, women are more likely than men to test positive for metal sensitization, according to the report by Nadim J. Hallab, PhD, and colleagues from Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.

Using available databases reflecting the utilization of health services in California, Florida and Nebraska — all three of which give access to deidentified information on individual patients — the research team identified 2,261 obese patients with asthma who underwent bariatric surgery from 2007 to 2009 and for whom information covering the two years before and after their surgery was available.

Patients who underwent open - heart surgery in the afternoon experienced better health outcomes compared to those who got operated on in the morning, study authors found after six years of observing nearly 600 patients who underwent heart valve replPatients who underwent open - heart surgery in the afternoon experienced better health outcomes compared to those who got operated on in the morning, study authors found after six years of observing nearly 600 patients who underwent heart valve replpatients who underwent heart valve replacement.

«We can not rule out that a fraction of our patients who met these criteria might have benefitted from delayed stent placement, especially because we found a small improvement in heart - muscle function 18 months after treatment among patients who underwent deferred stenting,» Kelbaek said.

To make sure that the patients were really free of the parasite, for instance, they had to be persuaded to travel back to the study clinic and undergo painful lumbar punctures 6, 12, and 18 months after the trial — which isn't easy when patients no longer feel sick.

After receiving the engineered cells, she experienced no fevers or other signs of cytokine release syndrome (CRS), a condition that has been observed in other patients undergoing CTL019.

For example, it may be possible to initiate tissue regeneration after heart attacks without having a patient undergo difficult, invasive surgery, but a great deal of additional research is required.

This is the first study to examine the association between the risk of complications after surgery and the rate of unplanned re-hospitalizations in a large, nationally representative sample of patients undergoing general surgery.

A doctor treating a patient with a potentially fatal metastatic breast tumor would be very pleased to find, after administering a round of treatment, that the primary tumor had undergone a change in character — from aggressive to static, and no longer shedding cells that can colonize distant organs of the body.

Gino Gialdini, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, and colleagues conducted a study to determine the long - term risk of ischemic stroke after perioperative AF of patients undergoing surgery, using administrative claims data from California acute care hospitals between 2007 and 2011.

Twenty patients underwent complete tumor resection after receiving the drug.

Between 2004 and 2014, 477 patients treated with BMT at City of Hope underwent standardized neuropsychological testing before their transplant, and at the six - month and one -, two - and three - year marks after transplant; testing was conducted on eight cognitive domains, including executive function, verbal fluency and speed, processing speed, working memory, visual and auditory memory, and fine motor dexterity.

Overall, results also showed that it took a month and a half to more than 6 months for many patients to undergo surgery after an initial x-ray displayed signs of possible lung cancer.

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.

• After 12 years, the incidence of deaths from prostate cancer was 5.4 percent for patients who underwent radiation therapy plus hormone treatment, compared with 13.4 percent for those who had only radiation therapy.

The team imaged the hippocampus and amgydalar in patients before, during and after undergoing ECT and compared those images to healthy control subjects.

After undergoing OKS therapy, patients were also better able to assess their own state of health and were no longer in denial about their functional impairments.

This research demonstrates that patients should not only undergo nutritional and mental health assessments before bariatric surgery, but also continuing to focus on these important factors after surgery is important to achieving the best possible long - term outcomes.»

One 2013 paper found that, more than 7 years after the procedures, open - heart surgery patients scored slightly higher on cognitive tests than did people who underwent less invasive angioplasty, which requires only a local anesthetic.

But when I went to the Neuro I met these young epilepsy patients who complained of memory problems after undergoing operations that removed part of the brain's left temporal lobe.

Each of the patients underwent tumor biopsies before, during, and after a 20 - week regimen of chemotherapy.

The MSLT - 1 trial demonstrated that patients with a positive SLN undergoing CLND had far better melanoma - specific survival than those patients who manifested nodal recurrence either on the observation arm or after a false - negative SLN biopsy (10 - year melanoma - specific survival rates: 62.1 % vs 41.5 % and 34.4 %, respectively).