The phrase
"asymptomatic patients" refers to individuals who are infected with a disease or illness but do not experience any noticeable symptoms.
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In experiments, their so - called TZA test was able to detect a 70-fold increase in the amount of «hidden» HIV found
in asymptomatic patients with undetectable viral loads.
Several large clinical trials, involving thousands
of asymptomatic patients in the United States and Europe, have shown that a surgical technique known as carotid endarterectomy can remove the plaques and slightly reduce the risk of a stroke, by about 1 to 5 percent over five years.
«Our results indicate that a high ADC value recorded at the level of the subglandular area of the cervix is associated with the imminent delivery of
asymptomatic patients with a short cervix,» Dr. Masselli said.
What's more, the 1005 patients already had cancer symptoms; CancerSEEK probably won't work as well in
asymptomatic patients whose smaller tumors may shed less DNA.
This study also found poorer clinical outcomes in
asymptomatic patients compared with the clinical outcomes of symptomatic patients in the PAF group but not in the SAF group.
To study the predictive value of MRI plaque imaging, researchers performed carotid artery ultrasound and MRI on 946
asymptomatic patients from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
The researchers found higher levels of NCL - like lipofuscin in lymphoblasts, cells that mature into lymphocytes in patients with NCL, and also in
asymptomatic patients carrying mutations in the progranulin gene.
In 77 participants with natural colds, a combination of zinc gluconate nasal spray and zinc orotate lozenges (37 mg zinc every 2 — 3 wakeful hours) was also found to have no effect on the number of
asymptomatic patients after 7 days of treatment [69].
Ikegami, N., et al. «Prophylactic effect of long - term oral administration of glycyrrhizin on AIDS development
of asymptomatic patients,» Int Conf AIDS, 9 (1): 234, 1993.
«The present data also showed that
asymptomatic patients with PAF may not receive adequate treatment, and thus early detection and more intensive medical management of these patients are recommended.»
University of Pittsburgh researchers are developing a method for detecting dormant HIV in
asymptomatic patients — an important step in identifying a cure for the virus.
It is a tacit acknowledgment that we do not know if there is a net benefit to routinely providing the service to
asymptomatic patients.