Sentences with phrase «more types of patients»

The increasingly competitive market for transcatheter valves is expected to expand from $ 3 billion currently to $ 5 billion in 2021 as more types of patients get treated with the valves.

Not exact matches

The case was yet more evidence that both the clinical trial doctors and the drug's developers would have to be more patient in assessing this new type of therapy.

The drug already has undergone initial testing in more than 550 patients with multiple types of cancer.

This practice would yield not only more donors, but more types of organs as well, since the heart could now be removed from dying, not just dead, patients.

Another anomaly appeared in mental hospitals with the advent of drugs, especially the types that reduce anxieties and make patients more manageable.

Younger patients are more likely to heal these types of tears than adults.

Every year, people with very good intentions sit down and type out a list of New Year's resolutions, usually consisting of some lofty goals like «I will never touch fast food again» or «I will whip those saddle bags into shape» or «I will be a more patient parent.»

Every year, people with very good intentions sit down and type out a list of New Years resolutions, usually consisting of some lofty goals like «I will never touch fast food again» or «I will whip those saddle bags into shape» or «I will be a more patient parent.»

«Hospitals are starting to question whether it is more important to be certified, or to deliver the type of care that is good for patients,» Howe - Heyman said.

Patients who smoke are more likely to have failure of the skin flaps used for many types of plastic and reconstructive surgery procedures.

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

Type 2 diabetes afflicts more than 300 million people globally, and as many as 15 % of those patients can not take the first - line therapy metformin because of kidney damage risks.

Prior to the new study, researchers had already developed a more basic type of skin substitute that had been used successfully in human patients, said Takashi Tsuji, a team leader at RIKEN Center forDevelopmental Biology in Japan.

Among Parkinson's patients, loss of smell occurs more often than the most common type of tremor.

Similar types of more severe cognitive dysfunction are common in brain cancer patients who have received high - dose, photon - based radiation treatments.

In addition to improving the quality of life for patients and the cost benefit to health care systems, treating these types of polyps with more advanced endoscopic techniques could avoid many complications.

Even more than other types of cancer, melanoma is a disease of aging, with older patients more frequently diagnosed with the disease and having a worse prognosis.

Using eye drops that improve outflow or decrease fluid production can reduce the risk of eye damage in most patients with more common types of glaucoma, Liu says.

The authors confirmed that both types of breast reconstruction procedures are more widely used today in high - risk patients than in 1998.

The researchers hope these findings will aid in developing new treatments by using animal models that more closely represent the types of mutations apparent in the vast majority of patients with enchrondromas.

«It has to be more of an individualized approach to the type of cancer and even the patient,» says the University of Nebraska, Omaha's Julie Vose, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

«And the fact that we can get a large sample size for specific types of surgeries allows us to narrow down our data and be more precise in our understanding of individual patient populations and procedures in terms of risk.»

Other patients, in contrast, are treated with medications for migraines even though they suffer from a different type of headache, such as the more common tension variety.

The study of more than 10,000 patients in 30 countries also found the drug offered protection not just for people already suffering cardiovascular disease but for all type 2 diabetics.

An essential new way to move discoveries forward has emerged in the form of multi-stakeholder collaborations involving three or more different types of organizations, such as drug companies, government regulators and patient groups, write Magdalini Papadaki, a research associate, and Gigi Hirsch, a physician - entrepreneur and executive director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation.

«In patients with ovarian cancer, we found more pathogenic types of bacteria.»

After adjusting for age, race / ethnicity, facility type, ZIP code - based income and education levels, and U.S. Census region, it was found that uninsured males were 1.51 times more likely to be diagnosed at a distant stage of disease compared with patients with private insurance.

The research team with international collaborators analysed more than 100 patient samples from ovarian and other cancer types to discover a distinct population of cells found in some tumours.

«I think that's key because knowing if a patient eradicated the H. pylori versus whether they still have the infection may indicate that they may have a more resistant type of H. pylori that didn't respond to the initial antibiotic and would require different antibiotics to eradicate it.»

More than half of patients had at least one type of HPV DNA detectable in their oral rinses, including HPV16, the viral type most commonly associated with oral and other cancers.

New findings from large - scale studies of more than 3.6 million people who underwent screening for cardiovascular disease reveals that a person's age and gender affects the prevalence of certain types of peripheral vascular diseases (PVD), and that diabetes is a major risk factor for developing these diseases, even in patients without heart disease.

Hepatic encephalopathy occurs when the liver can not remove certain toxins and chemicals, such as ammonia, from the blood.1 These toxins and chemicals then build up and enter the brain.1 Hepatic encephalopathy is one of the major complications of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), and a leading cause of hospital re-admission due to its recurrence, despite treatment.1 It can occur suddenly in people with acute liver failure, but is seen more often in those with chronic liver disease.1 Symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy include mild confusion, forgetfulness, poor concentration and personality or mood changes, but can progress to extreme anxiety, seizures, severe confusion, jumbled and slurred speech and slow movement.1 The first step in treatment is to identify and treat any factors that cause hepatic encephalopathy.2 Once the episode has resolved, further treatment aims to reduce the production and absorption of toxins, such as ammonia.1 Generally, there are two types of medication used to reduce the likelihood of another hepatic encephalopathy episode — lactulose and rifaximin.2 However, it remains a leading cause of hospitalisations and re-hospitalisations in cirrhotic patients, despite the use of the above - mentioned standard of care treatment.

The team found that patients with more varied types of bacteria in their digestive tract had longer median progression - free survival, defined at the time point where half of studied patients have their disease progress.

There were differences in the types of disorders: patients in Paris, for example, had a higher prevalence of anxiety than those in Manchester, while depression was more common among Mancunians than Parisians.

The new study analyzed heart disease risk factors among more than 3,900 patients who were treated for ST - elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI — the most severe and deadly type of heart attack — at Cleveland Clinic between 1995 and 2014.

The map works by dividing asthma into different subgroups in order to allow personalised treatment more targeted to the type of asthma patients live with.

But because skilled performance, like playing music or flying airplanes, requires much more than mere muscle memory, and because this patient retained it despite losing most other aspects of her declarative memory, researchers conclude this type of skill - related declarative knowledge is different.

The results of a study involving more than 9,000 patients, presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed that Type 1 diabetes occurs significantly more frequently in patients with Juvenile Inflammatory Arthritis (JIA) than in the general population.

Despite increased understanding of heart disease risk factors and the need for preventive lifestyle changes, patients suffering the most severe type of heart attack have become younger, more obese and more likely to have preventable risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Good candidates for the NCES procedure have stable vitiligo, in which not more than 10 percent worsening has been seen in the last year and patients with segmental vitiligo, a type that appears on only one side of the face or body.

«As a result of these findings, we expect that more physicians will consider gastric bypass surgery as a viable option for patients with type 2 diabetes and mild to moderate obesity when previous attempts to lose weight and improve glycemic control have not been successful,» said Simonson.

As these patients start having to access larger veins, they become more prone to these types of infections.»

Study lead investigator Shannon Chen, BA, says the team is already collecting further data on patients having lap - band and other types of more - aggressive weight - loss surgeries.

They also showed that drugs against a type of breast tumor called HER2 positive breast cancer — such as the dual ERBB2 / EGFR inhibitor lapatinib — potentially could benefit more patients than currently receive them, if analysis of the tumor proteins is taken into consideration.

Their analysis revealed five common types of dysfunctional breathing and the breathing patterns associated with each of them — findings that could eventually help doctors tailor treatments more closely to patients» needs.

Surgeons are treating patients with a new type of hip implant that could lead to better outcomes for younger, more active people requiring surgery.

A meta - analysis of data from over 6,500 patients has now shown that, although antidepressants are more effective than placebos, the difference is minor and varies according to the type of mental disorder.

«Next, we need to understand more precisely what the optimal timing, dose and duration of NSAID use should be among patients with KRAS wild - type tumors.

More than two - thirds of the patients took one or both types of antacid medication after their diagnosis.

«Triple - negative breast cancers tend to be more aggressive compared to other types of breast cancers, and being able to predict response to therapy could greatly impact treatment decisions and patient outcomes,» says study author Shaveta Vinayak, MD, oncologist at UH Case Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.