Sentences with phrase «old woman patient»

The 44 - year - old woman patient suffered from mild hypertension and took birth control pills.

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«The patient is a 38 - year - old woman with good past health.

As a professional, there is no need for us to screen women every year, especially as the liquid based paps are considerably more expensive for the patient than the old smear and fix paps we used to see.

He indicated that older women are experienced, patient, loving and caring and less demanding as compared to the younger ladies.

In the first study evaluating patient - reported cosmetic outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.

One of the few exceptions to the old saying «everybody is afraid of something» is a 44 - year - old woman known to psychologists as patient SM.

In a paper published recently in the journal Pediatric Blood & Cancer, he and colleagues document three cases in which fibrolamellar patients, all 18 - year - old women, were found to have developed brain tumors.

One participant, «Patient 1,» was a 32 - year - old woman paralyzed for 13 years at the time of the trial who experienced perhaps the most dramatic changes.

«I've admitted a patient, a 28 - year - old woman,» he said.

Lead investigator, Evan Matros, MD, FACS, explained that today plastic surgeons are more willing to perform reconstructive procedures in these patient groups — which include women age 65 and older or those who have had radiation therapy — than they were 15 years ago, and that patients themselves are more accepting of these reconstruction procedures.

One patient, a 46 - year old woman, started the trial with stage 4 ovarian cancer — which generally has a very poor prognosis — following five prior courses of chemotherapy.

To make sure he recruited only patients with major depression, Jonathan Flint, a psychiatrist from the University of Oxford who led the study, says he examined older generations of Han Chinese women.

His patient, Auguste D., was a 51 - year - old woman who had suffered fits of paranoid jealousy and memory lapses so disturbing that her family finally brought her to a local hospital known as the Castle of the Insane.

That's not a strange thing for a childless 36 - year - old woman to tell her gynecologist, but it surprised me because this patient is HIV - infected.

Until now, only one patient in the United States was hospitalized, a 41 - year - old woman who recovered.

Brain scans of a 23 - year - old woman who, in a traffic accident, sustained head injuries so severe she met the clinical criteria for a vegetative state are forcing many doctors to reconsider what they know about such patients» awareness.

The patient was a petite 80 - year - old white - haired woman in pressed Bermuda shorts.

The first patient was a 24 - year - old woman from central Alabama.

The findings, which suggest women may live four times longer with surgical treatment, were especially striking among older patients; researchers found that nearly half of women over 75 with stage III / IV cancer do not have surgery and roughly 25 percent receive no treatment at all.

Women, older patients and those from more deprived areas were less likely to say they received advice.

The procedure, which involved attaching the nose, chin, cheeks, and lips of a 46 - year - old brain - dead woman, set off a firestorm of criticism that lingered even after the French surgeons declared in July 2006, in the medical journal The Lancet, that the graft was «successful with respect to appearance, sensitivity, and acceptance by the patient.»

As in the previous group, the effect was most pronounced among patients who received chemotherapy rather than radiation — but most women in the second group had received an older kind of chemotherapy, so the researchers couldn't confirm the effect of the NQO1 * 2 mutation on the now - common epirubicin therapy.

The way to do so occurred to Olaf Blanke — a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the Brain - Mind Institute, part of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland — a decade ago while he worked with an epilepsy patient, a 43 - year - old woman with drug - resistant seizures who had to be treated with surgery.

However, after autologous reconstruction — creation of a new breast using the patient's own tissues — the risk of blood clot - related complications called venous thromboembolism (VTE) was significantly higher for older women.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The effect of glucocorticoid treatment is most prominent on trabecular bone and is therefore likely to be larger on vertebral bone than on hip bone.3 Glucocorticoids are associated with an increased rate of fracture, and higher doses and longer use of glucocorticoids are associated with higher risks of fracture.4 Compared with patients not taking glucocorticoids, the risk of hip and vertebral fracture among patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and women.4

NIH - funded researchers taught 2 patients who were paralyzed by stroke — a 58 - year - old woman and a 66 - year - old man — to mentally control a robotic limb.

1/10/2008 100 Year - Old Heart Patient Sings Praises of «Wine, Women, and Song» «Schubert's Serenade, do you know it?»

About 40 percent of the young cancer patients were diagnosed with what's known as stage two tumors, when cancer has spread to lymph nodes surrounding the breast while just 34 percent of older women were diagnosed when cancer had reached stage two.

Among the 50 trials, 30 were primary prevention trials (general populations, smokers and workers exposed to asbestos, patients with oesophageal dysplasia, male physicians, patients with non-melanoma skin cancer, postmenopausal women, patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis, patients with end stage renal disease, ambulatory elderly women with vitamin D insufficiency, patients with chronic renal failure, older people with femoral neck fractures, patients with diabetes mellitus, elderly women with a low serum 25 - hydroxyvitamin D concentration, health professionals, people with a high fasting plasma total homocysteine concentration, or kidney transplant recipients), and 20 were secondary prevention trials (patients with cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, transient ischaemic attack, stroke, angiographically proved coronary atherosclerosis, vascular disease, or aortic valve stenosis).

Those guidelines and new educational activities will help partners at Aurora Health Care System (Wis.), Emory University / Grady Memorial Hospital (Ga.), Magee Women's Hospital (Pa.), Mount Sinai (N.Y.), UC San Diego Health (Calif.), Northwestern (Ill.), St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (N.J.), University of Chicago (Ill.), and University of North Carolina (N.C.) to promote a variety of proven techniques for improving care for older patients — from coordinating expertise among various professionals to ensuring that older people can transition from the hospital to outpatient settings (like homes or community - based settings) whenever and wherever safely possible.

The patients were an average of 67 years old, white and 54 % women, and had overnight in - hospital tests for sleep apnea.

In 1980 when his 40 - year - old housewife patients had become 60 - year - olds suffering from post-menopausal osteoporosis, he at first prescribed the transdermal regime of natural progesterone (then being sold as a skin moisturizer) only to those women for whom estrogen was contraindicated.

Commonly used depression screening instruments include the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) in various forms and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scales in adults, the Geriatric Depression Scale in older adults, and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) in postpartum and pregnant women.

Today, however, there are many other individuals (men and women, young and old, children, and patients with a stable chronic disease) whose main focus is on using weight training to improve or maintain strength.

Taking a look at a patient story: A 29 - year - old woman, Liz, came in for treatment of redness around her mouth.

A 27 - year old male patient who was diagnosed with anal There were 15 women and 7 men.11 differin reviews for acne scars.

I am a twenty five year old accountant who would love to meet an experienced woman that is passionate and would be patient in teaching me her years of experience in bed.

However, I get to...» «hello there my name is Scott i am 46 years old l love to cook play drums long walks around the river long bike rides atching nascar and hockey i am here to fond a sweet loving caring woman to spend the rest of my life with i am not here to get hurt lied or cheated on...» «I'm patient, generous, kind, and loving.

He is a very good salesman who was very patient with an old man and an old woman.

A 59 - year - old woman who was a patient at Weiss Memorial Hospital filed a lawsuit claiming that 49 - year - old nurse James Whittington injected her with morphine and sexually assaulted her, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Patient 7: In early July 2012, a young 24 year old women in Canada for 4 years, 35 weeks pregnant, arrived at a free refugee health care clinic crying, with severe abdominal pain.

Patient 27: A woman fled her country despite the fact that she was 33 weeks pregnant in order to save her 13 year old daughter from female genital mutilation.

The patient, a 40 - year - old woman, had logged onto a computer at the library in Texas, searched the internet and correctly diagnosed herself with a rare disease.

Commonly used depression screening instruments include the Patient Health Questionnaire in various forms and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scales in adults, the Geriatric Depression Scale in older adults, and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in postpartum and pregnant women.

The tea party objection to the AHCA was that it didn't get rid of the ACA's regulations on insurance companies — such as barring insurers from charging more money to women, older patients, or patients with preexisting conditions, or requiring them to cover essential services like preventive health care without cost to patients, emergency services, prescription drugs, and prenatal care.