Sentences with phrase «earlier clinical diagnosis»

Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS) are potentially lethal complications, particularly in children, and early clinical diagnosis and careful clinical management by experienced physicians and nurses is necessary to reduce the number of fatalities.

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«Early diagnosis is usually based on clinical signs and symptoms, and cases are often misdiagnosed or left undiagnosed until too late,» said Sambhi.

As explained in DSM - 5, age of onset is now set at 12, rather than an earlier age, to reflect the importance of clinical presentation during childhood for accurate diagnosis, while also acknowledging the difficulties in establishing precise childhood onset retrospectively.

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.

Early and accurate diagnoses of these brain disorders is essential for developing treatments and identifying patients eligible for clinical trials.

«Even though [this method] might not be the particular version that becomes the clinical standard, it paves the way for earlier and objective diagnosis.»

Danny Hatters, a molecular biologist at the University of Melbourne, says the study is a convincing demonstration that the Huntington's mutation begins disrupting normal cellular events «very early in age and long before clinical diagnosis», he says.

In a study of 51 patients, researchers used a state - of - the art microfluidic device to capture circulating pancreas epithelial cells in 33 percent of patients with early pancreatic lesions and no clinical diagnosis of cancer.

Currently, there is poor clinical approaches for early diagnosis and treatment for ESCC patients and the five - year overall survival rate is about 10 per cent.

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.

Though there is still disagreement, a new study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Breast Cancer Symposium in San Francisco suggests that annual mammography and palpation of breast masses remain critical tools in early breast cancer diagnosis.

Once these relationships are defined, the hope is that NEI and other funding, and ultimately collaborations with industry partners, will result in new clinical instruments that will benefit many more patients with earlier diagnoses and more sensitive measures of changes resulting from glaucoma treatments.

Both hospital units work jointly since 1995 to offer diagnosis and assessment services in families with hereditary cancer, as well as clinical monitoring, prevention, early detection and highly specialised treatments for patients.

These observations are being translated to routine clinical use for gene - based diagnosis, cancer risk assessment and predictive testing that will allow for early detection and / or prevention of cancer.

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.

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Research ranges from basic molecular and genetic studies to epidemiological and clinical research on cancer prevention, early diagnosis, molecular characteristics of the cancer process and new treatments for cancer using drugs and radiotherapy.

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.

Early and accurate diagnosis of these disorders has been greatly facilitated by the widespread clinical application of high - throughput genomic sequencing, leading to increased diagnostic rates in these rare conditions.

Many elderly men may undergo unnecessary prostate cancer screenings while men in their early fifties, who are more likely to benefit from early diagnosis and treatment, do not, according to a new study published March 28 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Early diagnosis is important, as therapeutic advances can lead to improved clinical outcome and patient benefit.

March 28, 2011 Many elderly men undergo unnecessary PSA screenings Many elderly men may undergo unnecessary prostate cancer screenings while men in their early fifties, who are more likely to benefit from early diagnosis and treatment, do not, according to a new study published March 28 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

«This is the first objective, physiological marker for two major psychiatric disorders that, once fully developed into a clinical test, can allow for earlier and more accurate diagnosis, and selection of more appropriate medications for patients.»

Because Hashimoto's is a progressive disease that can be treated and reversed, especially when identified in early stages, prior to the clinical diagnosis as an autoimmune disease, it is important to seek proper testing and diagnosis from a practitioner well - versed in the disease.

The Dementia Strikes Children Too campaign aims to raise awareness of childhood dementia, drive for better clinical education of this group of diseases, and put in place the systems and tools for earlier diagnosis.

We can not promise any benefits to your horse or other animals from your taking part in this clinical trial; however, possible benefits include lowering the incidence of this common eye cancer in Haflinger, Belgian, Percheron, Appaloosa, and Arabian Horses, helping breeders to make informed mating decisions, and better prediction of the risk of developing disease for earlier diagnosis and treatment.

In early studies, we have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of the CT pneumocolonography procedure in normal dogs, but it is important that we learn to accurately interpret the imaging findings for a wide variety of disease processes in clinical patients so that our CT diagnoses are accurate.

The most reliable and definitive diagnosis might possibly be by a series of radiographs which can show the early, middle, and late phases of the disease, but even then radiographic signs can be so minimal that they can be missed, even if the animal exhibits clinical signs and a number of films are correctly exposed.

«It is extremely important for producers to understand that an early M. bovis diagnosis can not be made on clinical signs and behavior alone,» says Lee Bob Harper, DVM, Pfizer Animal Health Cattle and Equine Technical Services.

The history and clinical signs can help, but an earlier confirmatory diagnosis is usually required based upon laboratory testing.

Prognosis depends on the cause of the heart disease, but early diagnosis with regular check ups at the vet and keeping an eye out for clinical signs at home, will give your dog the best chance at the longest happiest life.

Development of CHF worsens the prognosis, so an early diagnosis should assist in appropriate clinical management (Schober et al., 2010).

EARLY THYROID DISEASE (THYROIDITIS) COMPENSATORY AND CLINICAL CANINE HYPOTHYROIDISM Most of the confusion about the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease in purebred or mixed breed dogs today stems from the expectation that affected animals must show clinical signs of inadequate thyroid hormonal production (i.e. hypothyroidism) in order to have the CLINICAL CANINE HYPOTHYROIDISM Most of the confusion about the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease in purebred or mixed breed dogs today stems from the expectation that affected animals must show clinical signs of inadequate thyroid hormonal production (i.e. hypothyroidism) in order to have the clinical signs of inadequate thyroid hormonal production (i.e. hypothyroidism) in order to have the disease.

Moore Blatch clinical negligence partner, Tim Spring, who is also currently the vice chair of The Encephalitis Society comments: «We believe that the roadshow will not only raise awareness to the general public, but will also serve to educate healthcare professionals, who are vital to the early diagnosis of Encephalitis.

Moore Blatch clinical negligence partner, Sarah Stanton comments: «Meningococcal disease — usually meningitis or septicaemia — is a fast, progressing illness where early diagnosis is crucial.

Personality disorders were assessed at the 1 - year follow - up interview using an earlier version of the International Personality Disorder Examination, a reliable semistructured clinical interview based on DSM - III - R criteria, 28,29 which differs from the later expanded version only in its lack of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, diagnoses (referred to herein as PDE).

This paper hypothesises that the population of children receiving a clinical diagnosis of ADHD is aetiologically heterogeneous: that within this population, there is a group for whom the development of ADHD is largely genetically driven, and another who have a «phenocopy» of ADHD as a result of very adverse early childhood experiences, with the prevalence of this phenocopy being heavily skewed towards populations living with poverty and violence.

QbTest is effective in evaluating ADHD medication effects in children25, 26 and can identify early non - responders.15 One clinical study found QbTest improved clinical accuracy by reducing the risk of unidentified ADHD when patients were re-evaluated 1 year after their initial assessment27 and another indicated the ability for QbTest to differentiate ADHD from normative controls.28 Initial audit data (K Selby, 2013, unpublished data) suggest that implementation of QbTest in routine ADHD clinics can reduce the time to diagnosis by 30 %.

In addition to helping to frame and inform clinical diagnosis, these same elements could contribute to the early childhood mental health consultant's efforts to complete a child assessment, define the concern in collaboration with families and staff, assist families and staff in understanding any clinical diagnosis, and design responsive interventions.

The goal of this study is to ascertain cross-sectionally and longitudinally: a) the specific contribution of the CU level and the presence of ODD diagnosis on psychological and functional measures as early as preschool age in the general population; b) the existence of a potential interaction CU × ODD, to determine if the contribution of CU levels on the children's clinical state varied for children with ODD and those without the diagnosis; and c) the stability of CU traits from ages 3 to 5.

Waylen et al. (2009) chose to compare children who met clinical diagnosis for ODD / CD at 8 years to those who did not, which resulted in a smaller sample size (n = 189), and limiting analyses to children who might not be part of the EOP conduct problem trajectory, as an ODD / CD diagnosis at 8 years might not persist through early adolescence.

We used the cohort data to investigate the association between self - reported maternal response to crying early in the child's life (4 weeks and 6 months of age) and the prevalence of adolescent depression in offspring using a validated International Statistical Classification — 10th revision criteria (ICD - 10) diagnosis of depression — the computerised revised clinical interview schedule (CIS - R)(Lewis et al. 1992).