Sentences with phrase «clinical diagnosis of a diseased»

As an aid (and nothing more than an aid) in the clinical diagnosis of a diseased cat that has signs suggestive of FIP

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Yet what attracted the most attention was a new deal with General Electric (NYSE: GE) under which GE's healthcare unit will help fund a clinical study of flurpiridaz F 18, which the companies believe could help improve diagnosis of coronary artery disease.

To succeed as a clinician - researcher, a physician - scientist uses his or her mastery of both clinical practice and basic science research in parallel, often drawing on both skill sets to find advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human disease.

Zika fever symptoms are often misdiagnosed due to its nonspecific clinical symptoms, so an accurate diagnosis is of paramount importance for management of the disease and to prevent neonatal infections.

«This study demonstrates that the road to a mitochondrial disease diagnosis is typically long and hard, involving visits to numerous clinical specialists, conflicting diagnoses, and repeated and sometimes painful and invasive testing,» says Michio Hirano, MD, the paper's senior clinical author and chief of the Neuromuscular Division at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

The designation remains controversial with some, who call it a muddy diagnosis that doesn't include an iron - clad clinical course and the kind of clear - cut pathology that defines classical neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.

My clinical responsibilities now include part - time direction of a hospital molecular genetics lab that specializes in the diagnosis of human genetic diseases and hematologic malignancies — a return to my early research interest in human genetics.

However, accurate diagnosis is complicated by a number of factors: other autoinflammatory diseases show similar symptoms, the clinical picture is often incomplete in young children, atypical signs may occur, and a suggestive family history is sometimes lacking.

His list of possible diagnoses reads like a tabulation of esoterica, a group of diseases I've almost never encountered in any patient during my entire clinical career: livedo vasculitis; polyarteritis nodosa, Wegener's, cryoglobulinemia.

Further, the accuracy of diagnosis even after the disease has entered its clinical phase, remains poor.

To strengthen its clinical research profile, Dresden has created a strategic plan, to be funded by the German Research Ministry (BMBF), that focuses on three aspects of clinical research: tissue engineering and development of physical and molecular medical technologies for clinical application; therapeutic strategies after cell and tissue damage; and diagnosis and therapy of malignant diseases.

The USPSTF also found inadequate evidence on the effectiveness of targeted screening in persons who are at increased risk for celiac disease (e.g., persons with family history or other risk factors), or on the effectiveness of treatment of screen - detected, asymptomatic celiac disease to improve morbidity, mortality, or quality of life compared with no treatment or treatment initiated after clinical diagnosis.

«Key to diagnosis in 1976 was the relatively quick clinical recognition of a severe, possibly new disease by national authorities,» according to Breman and his co-authors.

His primary clinical and research focus is dementia, with specific areas of interest including biomarkers to assist in the diagnosis and understanding of disease mechanisms for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and translational research using novel therapeutic approaches.

To date, the diagnosis of rare skeletal diseases is based primarily on clinical phenotype and radiographic analysis.

«We will lead an effort to bring these stakeholders together to make meaningful changes in the involvement of women and minorities in clinical trials to better inform the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and conditions.»

Scientists and clinicians have increasingly tried to move away from simplistic racial and ethnic categories in disease research, the authors say, and — with the rise of precision medicine — in clinical diagnosis and treatment as well.

The Endocrine Society issued a Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for the diagnosis and treatment of two types of rare adrenal tumors — pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas — that can raise the risk of cardiovascular disease and even death if left untreated.

The Endocrine Society issued a Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) on diagnosis and treatment of primary adrenal insufficiency, a condition commonly known as Addison's disease that occurs when the body produces too little of the hormone cortisol.

A new study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine revealed that 44 percent of adults with sickle cell disease who report trouble sleeping actually have a clinical diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing, including sleep apnea, which lowers their oxygen levels aClinical Sleep Medicine revealed that 44 percent of adults with sickle cell disease who report trouble sleeping actually have a clinical diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing, including sleep apnea, which lowers their oxygen levels aclinical diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing, including sleep apnea, which lowers their oxygen levels at night.

In this paper, we focus on the latter limitation, viewing it as a reflection both of the different clinical presentations of many diseases (variable phenotypic expression), and of the excessive reliance on Cartesian reductionism in establishing diagnoses.

The Clinical Research Forum Board of Directors selected winners based on the degree of innovation and novelty involved in the advancement of science; contribution to the understanding of human disease and / or physiology; and potential impact upon the diagnosis, prevention and / or treatment of disease.

The state - of - the - art technologies captured in these images demonstrate the capacity to improve patient care by detecting disease, aiding diagnosis, improving clinical confidence and providing a means of selecting appropriate treatments.

Dr. Goldberg added that he derives particular inspiration from his clinical role as a glaucoma specialist, from which he continues to encounter patients who are losing functional vision due to delayed diagnosis or the aggressive nature of their disease.

The goal of CARE for RARE is to improve clinical care for patients and families affected by rare diseases by expanding and improving the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases.

«Sweden's strong track record in biobanking and clinical characterization of patient cohorts should allow important questions to be addressed related to the molecular mechanisms and diagnosis of human disease», says Kerstin Lindblad - Toh.

This means that samples can be taken before the clinical debut of a disease, to identify markers of value for early diagnosis, improving the scope for curative treatment,» says Ulf Landegren, Professor of Molecular Medicine at Uppsala University and member of SciLifeLab Faculty.

It is used heavily in clinical oncology, and for clinical diagnosis of certain diffuse brain diseases such as those causing various types of dementias.

In contrast, patients aged 75 and older accounted for approximately 29 % of CML diagnoses, yet this age group made up less than 4 % of those enrolled in clinical trials to evaluate new treatments for the disease.

The AADCRC program is the cornerstone of NIAID efforts to promote multidisciplinary basic and clinical research on the immunological basis, pathobiology, diagnosis, treatment, and preven tion of asthma and allergic diseases.

The University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center is an international center of excellence providing comprehensive patient and professional education, expert diagnosis and treatment for both children and adults, groundbreaking bench and clinical research, and active leadership in advocacy efforts.

Presentations included: Genetics Primer & Clinical Updates by Angelika Erwin, MD, PhD, Expanded Carrier Screening — What you Need to Know by Amy Shealy, MS, LGC, Recent Advances in the Treatment and Management of Cystic Fibrosis by Silvia Cardenas, MD, Advances in the Management of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by Neil Freidman, MBChB, Autism Genetics — PTEN and beyond by Thomas W. Frazier, PhD, Thoracic Aorta Aneurysm and Dissection by Apostolos «Paul» Psychogios, MD, FACMG, Update on Clinical Breast Cancer Genetics by Holly Pederson, MD, Colon Cancer by Brandie Leach, MS, LGC and The Role of Biomarkers in Current Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease by Jagan Pillai, MD, PhD.

But John Branda, associate director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his colleagues published research in August about a test intended to detect Borrelia infection earlier than would any of the methods now commonly used for the diagnosis of Lyme disease.

The observations, published in Leukemia & Lymphoma, could have clinical relevance in that subclonal composition of AML could impact diagnosis and treatment for the disease.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the neuropathological and biochemical findings of the brain examination of a patient enrolled in the AN - 1792 (QS - 21) trial with an initial clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD), in whom Lewy body variant was thereafter clinically diagnosed.

Cognitive deficits, or difficulties thinking clearly, often appear well before the traditional clinical diagnosis of Huntington's disease (HD).

Targets of research range from basic molecular and cellular mechanisms, the manipulation of these mechanisms in animal models, analyses of the genes and gene products in cardiovascular disease, and clinical research that seeks to improve diagnosis and therapy for patients.

I am developing mathematical and statistical tools to disentangle tumor cell population structure, enabling an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of the disease and better - informed clinical decisions.

The Institute supports and conducts basic, translational, and clinical research on the healthy and diseased nervous system; fosters the training of investigators in the basic and clinical neurosciences; and seeks better understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurological disorders.

ACMG 2017: 48th Annual March of Dimes Clinical Genetics Conference - The Undiagnosed Diseases Network; changing the paradigm of rare disease diagnosis, treatment and research

Hazard Ratios (95 % CI) for Coronary Heart Disease or Diagnosis With a Clinical CVD Risk Factor (Diabetes, Hypertension, or Hypercholesterolemia) for Optimal Levels of Lifestyle Factors

The availability of genomic data in open databases, in tandem with our initial insights into the genomic content and virulence traits of these pathogenic Clostridium species, should enable the scientific community to further investigate the disease - causing mechanisms of these bacteria with a view to enhancing clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Making a definitive diagnosis: successful clinical application of whole exome sequencing in a child with intractable inflammatory bowel disease.

GENYO is the first national centre devoted to genomics that integrates the Public Administration, the University and the biotechnology and pharmaceutical business sector, which would allow the integration of research in all its phases, from the generation of knowledge to its development in clinical and pharmaceutical applications, the development of new projects and services for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases associated to human genetic variability, such a cancer and rare diseases, diabetes, hypertension or degenerative diseases, among others.

Mediate the translation of bench - top discovery into clinical advances in the diagnosis, prevention, or therapy of diseases

Programs are clustered into Discipline - Based or Disease - Oriented and bring together investigators from all research disciplines (basic, population focused, and clinical) to tackle the challenges of tumor development and progression, diagnosis and treatment, as well as cancer control and disparities.

The proper diagnosis of Lyme disease is based on clinical judgment, not laboratory tests.

«Even with all the latest diagnostic methods, the discrepancy between the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and the pathological diagnosis is about 20 percent,» said senior researcher adjunct scientist Dr. David Munoz.

ACG Clinical Guidelines: Diagnosis and Management of Celiac Disease.

In this clinical setting without diagnosable disease, the diagnosis of a relative age - related adult - onset hypogonadism is gaining popularity and treatment with testosterone is becoming more common in the integrative medicine and urology fields.