Sentences with phrase «detect asymptomatic»

He continued, «An increased number of routine visits may detect asymptomatic conditions such as pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction or reduced fetal movements earlier, allowing more timely intervention.

«Genetic test successfully detects some asymptomatic pancreatic cancers.»

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford found that testing asymptomatic men with PSA detects some disease that would be unlikely to cause any harm but also misses some aggressive and lethal prostate cancers.

Plowe is trying to develop surveillance methods that hit the «sweet spot,» by which he means sensitive enough to detect very low parasite loads in asymptomatic carriers — microscopy is too crude — but portable enough to use in the field.

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that can be detected in asymptomatic individuals by the presence of islet autoantibodies that develop in children.

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.

But asymptomatic C. difficile carriers may also play a role in disseminating spores because they can contaminate the environment and caregivers» hands, and because they are not detected are not placed under isolation precautions.

«Effort to detect, isolate asymptomatic C. difficile carriers linked to lower incidence.»

«Atrophy of the hippocampus, a region of the brain crucial for memory, is a common feature of AD, although it may also be detected in asymptomatic individuals as well as healthy adult carriers of the ApoE ɛ4 allele,» explained Andy Simmons, PhD, of the Department of Neuroimaging of the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London.

«IPMNs are established precursor lesions to pancreatic cancer that account for approximately half of all asymptomatic pancreatic cysts incidentally detected by computerized tomography (CT) scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the U.S. each year.»

If your dog is asymptomatic (no clinical signs of CVD are present, as outlined above) and your veterinarian detects a heart murmur, further tests will be recommended to help determine how big the heart is and if your dog should start taking any heart medications.

Tests may be run to detect the genetic mutation responsible for hypomyelination, though some dogs can be asymptomatic carriers of the genetic defect.

PrettyLitter is a special cat litter that changes colors to alert owners of potential illnesses that can be detected via the urine in an otherwise asymptomatic cat.