Sentences with phrase «normal patients with»

Psychiatrists at Harvard Medical School have recently used low level thyroxine replacement for euthyroid and suboptimal thyroid normal patients with some success.

I started explaining chronic renal failure and was heading down the road of initiating treatment when my wife (also a vet) pointed out that I was probably jumping the gun, since we had an apparently normal patient with normal creatinine and normal urine concentration.

Not exact matches

For the first time, therefore, since the patient's physical activity and normal means of communication were severed, the patient had the opportunity to communicate meaningfully with the outside world, whilst still displaying no ordinary signs of awareness.

I went in circles for years trying to fix thyroid problems and it wasn't until I was properly diagnosed with autoimmune thyroid disease and got on an immune balancing protocol (including gluten free, since 95 % of Hashimoto's patients are gluten intolerant) that I finally felt normal again - it only took a couple of weeks to start feeling a lot better!

According to Dr. Anita Swamy, Medical Director at he Chicago Children's Diabetes CEnter at La Rabida, there is a strong link between PCOS and diabetes: «While type 2 diabetes risk factors such as insulin resistance and glucose intolerance are often seen in patients with PCOS, PCOS itself confers a significant risk, up to 10-fold versus the normal population, for development of type 2 diabetes.»

It is «very concerning,» she said, «when my patients share their story and fears that they will not recover, and are being told by physicians and other health care providers that they trust that they will likely not get better and that living with lingering symptoms was likely to be their «new normal.»

And generally, if we do this treatment, we do recommend adding on intrauterine insemination, shortened just as insemination, because we do think that it helps increase the pregnancy rate a little bit, even in patients with normal sperm.

But be patient with your baby as they figure things out — after the first couple of months, your routine will pay off, and your schedule will start to feel slightly more normal.

She could pretty much create a «normal birth - free» zone all by herself, and would leave midwives crying with frustration on their patients» (not their own) behalf.

My midwives didn't know what it was, had never had another patient speak about them, but felt sure that they were simply a reflection of an immature nervous system; that the spasms, which were combined with lots of normal baby movement, just meant his central nervous system was developing.

More likely that it was UNREMARKABLE (e.g. normal) and they didn't find out, despite following up with their patient.

Twenty patients with kidney failure, for example, showed levels of ammonia and acetone more than 10 times that of healthy controls, and the researchers could watch those levels fall back to normal as the patients received dialysis treatment.

There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

This could help explain why some patients with IBD and other conditions develop bacterial overgrowth, such as patients who develop ileus, which is a syndrome that can occur following intestinal surgery when there is a prolonged delay in the body's ability to resume normal peristaltic motions.

Beginning in 1997, Goadsby's team began using functional imaging to compare the brains of cluster - headache sufferers with those of normal patients.

While some narrowing of the spinal canal occurs with normal aging and does not always cause pain, more severe compression of nerves limits mobility and leads patients to try stronger pain medications and epidural steroid injections in an attempt to control the pain that is associated with walking and standing.

Patients with 2 or 3 of the predictors had a sudden cardiac death risk that was 145 times greater than patients with normal levels on all 3 mPatients with 2 or 3 of the predictors had a sudden cardiac death risk that was 145 times greater than patients with normal levels on all 3 mpatients with normal levels on all 3 measures.

«Our study suggests NMS increased patient medicine adherence compared with normal practice, which translated into increased health gain at reduced overall cost.

Researchers know that patients with several types of cancer, including prostate cancer, have higher than normal levels of a protein called AMACR, and that the protein is linked to the aggressiveness of the cancer.

In humans, a comparison of bone marrow from 14 normal bone marrow donors, 35 multiple myeloma patients and 11 patients with a noncancerous condition called monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) showed that Runx2 levels were significantly higher in the multiple myeloma cells.

The standard of care is surgical resection, but even with surgical resection, most patients fail to regain their normal range of motion and often suffer from chronic pain and joint contractures,» explained Thomas A. Davis, PhD, Vice Deputy Chair of Research, Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (Bethesda, MD), and the Naval Medical Research Center (Silver Spring, MD).

Since its launch in 2010, the project has sequenced the complete normal and cancer genomes of 700 young cancer patients with some of the most aggressive and least understood cancers.

«If approved, this treatment would provide physicians with an important new tool to help prevent migraine, reduce a patient's migraine load, and potentially help patients return to normal» says Dr. Silberstein.

In addition, the researchers looked at brain samples of deceased patients with MS and found increased numbers of GM - CSF - producing cells in comparison to normal brain samples.

The researchers identified 402 patients with orthostatic hypotension who had a normal heart rhythm.

«It is currently impractical to directly restore Apc function in patients with colorectal cancer, and past evidence suggests that completely blocking Wnt signaling would likely be severely toxic to normal intestinal cells,» Lowe says.

The Mexican graduated from the Tecnológico de Monterrey says that Magnus, a patient with an arm amputated above the elbow, is the first person to use technology and, since 2013, it has allowed him to develop a normal working life, return to his activity as operator of heavy machinery on the border between Sweden and Finland, as well as manipulate an egg without breaking it.

«With the advent of mechanical thrombectomy (blood clot removal) and minimally - invasive techniques, patients who otherwise would be permanently disabled from stroke can often lead normal, productive lives,» Dr. Reynolds said.

«This is a very useful technique in cases in which seizures are difficult to localize with an electroencephalogram or in which a patient's MRI is normal,» said Jorge Asconape, MD, a professor in the Department of Neurology who specializes in epilepsy.

More broadly, she added, restoring mTORC1 activity to normal levels may benefit patients with other neurological diseases.

For instance, from the manufacturer's point of view, an «improvement in the safety of health care» and a «better integration of patients with hemophilia into a normal social life» already arise through market entry.

In an article entitled «Prion protein modulates monoaminergic systems and depressive - like behavior in mice» and published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the group shows that mice lacking normal prions show a depressive - like behavior similar to depression symptoms found in patients with Alzheimer's and prion diseases, namely Creutzfeldt - Jakob Disease (CJD), variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob Disease (vCJD), Gerstmann - Sträussler - Scheinker syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia and kuru.

According to this explanation, patients with longstanding RA who reached normal or underweight BMI have higher observed mortality and are relatively less healthy than RA patients who maintained obesity or overweight.

One of the receptors reacts to fatty acids that occur in the blood, in patients with diabetes significantly above the normal range.

Ornish, who has built a reputation on advocating healthy living, and U.C.S.F. colleagues report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that they found the activity of more than 500 genes in the normal tissue of 30 men with low - risk prostate cancer changed after the patients began exercising regularly and eating diets heavy in fruit, veggies and whole grain (supplemented with soy, fish oil, the mineral selenium and vitamins C and E) and low in red meat and fats.

«This suggests that a normal response to vibration, which does not cause symptoms in most people, is exaggerated in our patients with this inherited form of vibratory urticaria.»

The majority of patients with fibromyalgia can see improvement in their symptoms and lead normal lives with the right medications and extensive use of non-drug therapies.»

An additional analysis showed that the percentage of patients with normal baseline blood pressure who developed hypertension5 was 23.2 % for ibuprofen, 19.0 % for naproxen and 10.3 % for celecoxib (odds ratio [OR] 0.39, p = 0.004 and OR 0.49, p = 0.03 for celecoxib versus ibuprofen and naproxen, respectively).

The team found that obese people with kidney cancer had a 53 % lower risk of dying from renal - cell carcinoma than patients who were normal weight2.

They compared tissues and serum from normal patients, outpatients with IPF, and patients with an acute exacerbation (AE) of IPF.

The team therefore analyzed the case history of 890 breast cancer patients and found that low Numb - 1 and -2 levels correlated with an increased risk of aggressive, metastatic disease, particularly for the luminal subtype of breast cancers, which tend to retain a normal, functional copy of the p53 gene.

Activity in the amygdala, a brain region associated with emotional processing, was lower in the tinnitus and hearing - loss patients than in people with normal hearing.

Length of stay and direct medical costs were lowest for patients with BMI values in the normal to overweight range.

Patients with values lower than 10 mg / dl had a near two-fold increased rate of coronary atherosclerosis as compared with those showing normal levels.

Patients with persistent ringing in the ears — a condition known as tinnitus — process emotions differently in the brain from those with normal hearing, researchers report in the journal Brain Research.

The researchers found that the anti-cancer drug romidepsin increased the virus production in HIV - infected cells between 2.1 and 3.9 times above normal and that the viral load in the blood increased to measurable levels in five out of six patients with HIV infection.

Egg recipients, however, were of varying body weights, and divided into four groups: lean with BMI below 20 kg / m2 (1458 patients, 15.2 %), normal with BMI 20 - 24.9 kg / m2 (5706 patients, 59.5 %), overweight with BMI 25 - 29.9 kg / m2 (1770 patients, 18.5 %), and obese with BMI > = 30 kg / m2 (653 patients, 6.8 %).

The team worked on tissue from three patients with colorectal cancer, taking normal bowel stem cells and cells from four different areas of the tumours.

He secured a small grant to do a rigorous investigation comparing cancer rates in the Laron syndrome patients with those of their relatives of normal height.

There are some patients with mucosal melanoma who have had complete responses to pembrolizumab and essentially return to a normal life.