Sentences with phrase «only small numbers of patients»

Current treatments include transplanting patients with donor HSC, which is a potential cure for SCD, but due to the serious risks of rejection, only a small number of patients have undergone this procedure and it is usually restricted to children with severe symptoms.

Although Tourette syndrome may be best known for the uncontrollable tendency to blurt out curse words or other inappropriate words or phrases, this symptom (called coprolalia) actually occurs in only a small number of patients.

It is at present unknown whether an optimal balance between safety and efficacy can be achieved with the combination therapy of GH and IGF - I, since this combination has been evaluated in only a small number of patient populations and in studies of a relatively short duration.

Only a small number of patients are diagnosed with schizophrenia.

While many people go to A&E with abdominal pain, only a small number of those patients have appendicitis.

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If a bacterial population can become antibiotic - resistant even when only a small number of individuals have the appropriate genetic mutations, doctors who collect and analyze small bacterial specimens from patients may underestimate just how resistant the infection is as a whole, Collins notes.

«Medical cannabinoids should normally only be considered in the small handful of conditions with adequate evidence and only after a patient has tried of number of standard therapies,» said Allan.

Following the study of several hundred patients, there remained a small number in whom only one mutation could be found in MMACHC.

Guideline authors noted, however, that the evidence for the recommendations is weak, since many of the studies had relatively small numbers of patients with similar types of epilepsy and were conducted at only one institution, so the results may not be generalizable to everyone with epilepsy.

Cell transplantation as a treatment for diabetes is still essentially experimental, uses cells from cadavers, requires the use of powerful immunosuppressive drugs, and has been available to only a very small number of patients.

And although there was only a small uptick in the maternal mortality at the hospital during that time (roughly 4 percent instead of 1 percent) the drop in the number of pregnant patients led caregivers to wonder if women were attempting home births and perhaps dying doing so, she says.

By combining two or more of these outcomes to create a single category, you can say it helped «A and B» even if it only helped A and not B. For example, although there was no statistically significant effect from tPA in the NINDS trial on the number of patients who died, there was a small decrease in disability for those who survived.

But with the very small number of patients we've treated to date, our data are only suggestive.»

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has demonstrated curative potential in several types of cancer, but only for a small number of patients.

This is most critical if they see only a few, as it is difficult for a veterinarian to stay current on exotic animal medicine if they only treat a small number of these patients.

Studies were generally small (mean number of patients = 35) and of variable methodological quality, with only five reporting blinding of outcome assessors to treatment allocation, and in some cases with high loss to follow - up.