Sentences with phrase «of symptomatic patients»

«Prompt isolation of symptomatic patients is key to eliminating Ebola, study suggests.»

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They are symptomatic of something much more serious and those who think that by dealing with symptoms they have cured a disease are only deluding themselves and harming the patient.

This visceral authentication of the relevance of the history of doctrine would be merely humorous were it not symptomatic of something that is not humorous; and one could be patient with phases of development marked by fascinated picking away at the gossamer peculiarities of one's own insides if the damage wrought were not so extensive.

We compared outcomes after medical versus surgical management of biliary tract disease in pregnant patients.We reviewed the clinical course of patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis during pregnancy from 1992 to 2002 at two university hospitals.Seventy - six women with 78 pregnancies were admitted with biliary tract disease.

Comparing a new patient's information with millions of other cases, Patient Rescue might be able to predict that they are in the early stages of a disease that has not yet become symptomatic, for epatient's information with millions of other cases, Patient Rescue might be able to predict that they are in the early stages of a disease that has not yet become symptomatic, for ePatient Rescue might be able to predict that they are in the early stages of a disease that has not yet become symptomatic, for example.

In a three - stage meta - analysis, Harvard University neurologist Clemens Scherzer and his collaborators analyzed gene expression in 410 samples taken from patients that either had symptomatic or asymptomatic Parkinson's or were healthy, including 185 samples of substantia nigra — a midbrain region where dopamine neurons are particularly susceptible to degeneration.

That would be symptomatic patients, those with a serious blockage of a carotid artery and a history of at least one previous stroke.

Previous clinical trials of creatine in symptomatic HD patients have been limited in scale, involved daily doses of 10 grams or less, and did not provide evidence of potential efficacy.

Healthy controls had an average of 0 percent protein clumps in their skin samples, while those with transthyretin amyloidosis but no symptoms had an average of 0.4 percent protein clumps and symptomatic patients with the disease had an average of 26.3 percent protein clumps.

In a new study, researchers based at Osaka University reported on their use of brain - machine interface (BMI) training with a robotic hand on 10 phantom limb patients to investigate the association between changes in symptomatic pain and cortical currents during phantom hand movements.

Timothy E. McAlindon, D.M., M.P.H., of Tufts Medical Center, Boston, and colleagues randomly assigned 140 patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis with features of synovitis to injections in the joint with the corticosteroid triamcinolone (n = 70) or saline (n = 70) every 12 weeks for two years.

All - cause mortality of asymptomatic versus symptomatic patients in PAF and SAF.

In a study published in the journal CHEST ®, researchers found that asymptomatic PAF patients are more likely to be older, male, and have more comorbidities and a higher risk of stroke than symptomatic patients.

Symptomatic recurrence of abnormal rhythm was more common with drug treatment, 36 patients (59 percent) in the antiarrhythmic drug group compared with 31 patients (47 percent) in the ablation group.

Kaplan - Meier curves for the incidences of all - cause death between asymptomatic and symptomatic patients with PAF (left) and SAF (right).

In an analysis of a sustained AF (SAF) group, the prevalence of major comorbidities and stroke risk were comparable in both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients.

«Our study emphasizes the importance of individualized therapy strategies and lifestyle interventions in order to prevent structural knee joint degeneration as early as possible in obese and overweight patients at risk for osteoarthritis or with symptomatic osteoarthritis,» Dr. Gersing said.

Previous studies have found a decrease in behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia when patients are treated for pain, but this new study now shows, for the first time, a decrease in symptomatic drug use.

What's more, recruiting medical workers to help with deliveries would be challenging because they are scared of being exposed to patients» blood, even when the latter are not symptomatic of Ebola, she says.

Professor Abraham said: «Patients with the remede ® system feel better, they are less symptomatic, their quality of life is improved, and the underlying mechanisms that lead to heart failure progression such as autonomic imbalance are improved.»

The trial included three groups of patients: those who did not undergo surgery following infusion (three patients who had multi-focal and recurrent tumors not amenable to surgical resection prior to infusion); those who underwent «late surgery» (three patients who had surgery once at either day 34, day 55, or day 104 following infusion); and those who underwent «early surgery» (four patients who had clear symptomatic progression leading to a combined regimen of CART infusion followed by clinically indicated surgery).

Shah and Shpall's team enrolled symptomatic patients who qualified as candidates for high - dose chemotherapy drugs like melphalan, and transplantation of the patient's own stem cells.

«Over the past five years, an increasing number of patients with symptomatic chronic thromboembolic disease, without severe pulmonary hypertension, are being offered and choosing to undergo the surgery, said lead investigator Daniel Crouch, MD, a third - year pulmonary and critical care fellow at UCSD.

Changhai Ding, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and colleagues randomly assigned 413 patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis and low 25 - hydroxyvitamin D to receive monthly treatment with oral vitamin D3 (50,000 IU; n = 209) or an identical placebo (n = 204) for 2 years.

Both are regularly used to evaluate the more than 4 million U.S. cases a year of newly symptomatic patients with no previous diagnosis of heart disease.

«These findings do not support a strategy of therapeutic vitamin D3 supplementation in patients with symptomatic asthma,» the authors conclude.

Patients treated with processed autologous adipose - derived regenerative cells (ADRCs) injected into the heart muscle demonstrated symptomatic improvement and a trend towards lower rates of heart failure hospitalizations and angina, despite no improvement in left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) or ventricular volumes.

Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied whether therapy with granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM - CSF), an agent that functions as a white blood cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease (a form of vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or arm).

«For Alzheimer's patients, the standard of care for symptomatic treatment remains cholinesterase inhibitors, which are 25 years old at this point.

«The results are of significant importance since, unlike the current treatments offered for fibromyalgia patients, HBOT is not aiming for just symptomatic improvement,» he said.

In particular, about 30 % of patients are still undiagnosed; moreover, only symptomatic therapy is still available for the majority of persons with RD.

Most patients were symptomatic (76 [73 %] of 104)(table 2).

For symptomatic patients, a symptom severity index was also calculated which equalled the cumulative symptom score divided by the number of symptoms present.

Inclusion Criteria: • Availability of tumor tissue for mesothelin expression testing • Histologically - confirmed, mesothelin - expressing metastatic or advanced non-metastatic disease (tumour type specific inclusion criteria) • At least one measurable lesion according to either Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 or International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) modified RECIST 1.1 as applicable • Adequate bone marrow, liver, renal and coagulation function • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50 % of the lower limit of normal (LLN) according to local institutional ranges • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0 or 1 Exclusion Criteria: • More than one prior anti - tubulin / microtubule agent • Corneal epitheliopathy or any eye disorder that may predispose the patients to this condition • Symptomatic Central nervous system (CNS) metastases and / or carcinomatous meningitis • Contraindication to both CT and MRI contrast agents • Active hepatitis B or C infection • Pregnant or breast - feeding patients • Tumor type specific exclusion criteria

This study does not support the idea of exercise as a strategy to raise brain progranulin levels in symptomatic patients with FTD due to GRN mutations, as we observed no effects on progranulin levels in Grn + / − mice at 4 — 8 months of age, the age range in which these mice begin to develop abnormal behavior and neuronal dysfunction (Filiano et al., 2013).

The data on the prevalence of myocardial ischemia on myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (MPS) in symptomatic patients with zero CACS and low to intermediate risk probability is lacking and controversial.

In conclusion, among patients with symptomatic knee OA, 2 years of intra-articular steroids resulted in more cartilage volume loss and no difference in knee symptoms.

These substrates are poorly absorbed in the small intestine; a diet low in FODMAPs provides symptomatic improvement in 74 % of patients with IBS.17 FODMAP foods include: lactose (in milk), excess fructose (in pears, apples), fructans and fructo - oligosaccharides (in artichoke, garlic, onions, wheat and rye), galacto - oligosaccharides (GOS; stachyose and raffinose in legumes), and sugar polyols (sorbitol and mannitol in stone fruits and artificial sweeteners).18 — 21 Wheat - and rye - derived products often contain the highest FODMAP content, predominantly fructans and GOS.

While modern medicine continues to rely on the same illogical and poor symptomatic psoriasis drug treatment methods, over half of all psoriasis patients in America alone refuse conventional psoriasis medical treatment due to the high cost in addition to very poor outcomes.

In summary, we believe the well - informed use of hormones in wellness and disease prevention will result in symptomatic improvement and should be considered an integral part in the armamentarium of options we offer our patients.

Naturopathic medicine attempts to find the underlying cause of the patient's condition rather than focusing solely on symptomatic treatment.

According to Dr. Turner, the amount of BH supplementation it takes to elicit a symptomatic response (warmth and burning in the digestive tract) is relative to the severity of the patients» Hypochlorhydria — the lower the levels of naturally - occurring stomach acid are, the greater the dose of BH needs to be to activate the heartburn symptoms.

The unmitigated absorption of large amounts of testosterone will cause a roller coaster ride of symptomatic sway and high risk that I do not feel comfortable subjecting my patients to.

However, many of our patients report feeling symptomatic relief, more energy, and an overall sense of well - being after just one session of intravenous vitamin therapy!

The well - informed use of hormones in wellness and disease prevention will result in symptomatic improvement and should be considered an integral part in the armamentarium of options we offer our patients.

Dietary analysis in symptomatic patients with coeliac disease on a gluten - free diet: the role of trace amounts of gluten and non-gluten food intolerances.

The cohort included 9 patients with symptomatic Crohn's disease (CD) and 6 with ulcerative colitis (UC), half of whom were on biologic therapy, with an average disease duration of 19 years (1).

Experience makes the difference here, and a natural medicine specialist will know that this highly specialized information can be the difference between symptomatic treatment or a most satisfactory outcome of complete recovery for that patient.

Among symptomatic atherosclerosis patients 13 to 47 percent (possibly more) have elevated homocysteine levels.29 Although supplemental B6, B12 and folic acid are an inexpensive, often - lifesaving way to lower homocysteine levels, highly toxic people sometimes become deathly ill from them, most probably because the absorption of B vitamins triggers this metabolic homocysteine pathway and results in a massive release of associated metal toxins into the bloodstream.30

Many conditions with different causes have a lot of symptomatic overlap, especially where the brain is concerned, so having symptoms that match up with bipolar doesn't necessarily mean you have the same problems as other bipolar patients.