Five to 10 years after surgery,
some patients experience stiffness, joint breakage or dislocation, and recurrent pain.
Celiac disease is defined as an autoimmune1 condition wherein
patients experience a reaction in the small intestine after consuming products with gluten.
Even though it is still hard to explain exactly how acupuncture works from a western medical paradigm (I'm talking controlled studies and randomized trials here), it is hard to deny the results that many
patients experience everyday.
He estimates that between 50 % and 60 % of his fibromyalgia
patients experience a 50 % reduction in pain (a common benchmark used to assess pain treatments), qualifying them for an implant.
I have seen
patients experience uncomfortable side effects like fatigue, weight gain, and decreased libido from certain medications.
Another recent study found that more than 7 % of all bypass
patients experience acute kidney failure.
He tell us that Randall's character exhibits signs of panic disorder, a form of anxiety in which
patients experience recurrent panic attacks throughout their life.
Many of
my patients experience something difficult or traumatic in their lifetime, which can leave them struggling with feelings of depression, anxiety, or low self - worth.
Now, a study suggests that many
patients experience new vision problems post-surgery — such as dry eyes, double vision, and glare — that they didn't have before.
Taking statin drugs may lower a person's levels of CoQ10, and some studies have shown that taking this supplement might improve some of the side effects of statin drugs, mainly muscle weakness that
some patients experience.
Sometimes eating less during illness promotes a faster recovery, but other times — such as when cancer
patients experience wasting — the loss of appetite can be deadly.
A team of chemical and biomedical engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, have discovered that HIV - infected
patients experience a dysfunction in a certain type of immune cell: the follicular helper T (Tfh) cell.
Patients experience frequent seizures, delays in their development, and an array of other health issues, including sleeping difficulties, challenges with growth and nutrition, and chronic infections.
An antibody therapy against a key inflammatory molecule involved in migraines reduces the number of headaches that chronic migraine
patients experience per month in a phase III trial A new s...
About half of
those patients experience severe constipation.
Despite the use of currently available treatments, these «no - option»
patients experience deterioration in their quality of life, and their life expectancy shortens.
Although the condition often manifests itself as chest pain, many
patients experience a deteriorating quality of life including some or all of these coronary artery disease symptoms:
These patients experience numbness, prickling, or tingling in the hands and feet, which may progress over time.
About one - third of immunotherapy
patients experience mild autoimmune side effects, which occurs when the immune system attacks not only the tumor but also the patient's body.
Patients who receive anti-PD-1 have an average response rate of 30 percent but approximately 25 percent of
the patients experience tumor relapse within two years after treatment has stopped.
«It is known that spouses of older stroke
patients experience health - related physical and mental issues, and that the degree of their problems is associated with the severity of the stroke, but ours is the first long - term study of seven years follow up to explore this in a younger group of people,» said Josefine Persson, M.Sc., study author and a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
The experiments also show that starvation increases the rate of pigment cell loss in light - exposed flatworms, which mirrors the worsening of disease symptoms some porphyria
patients experience when they diet or fast.
As the cancer advances, both canine and human
patients experience life - altering pain, which greatly affects their daily activities and quality of life.
Most
patients experience depression and have psychiatric issues such as social withdrawal and insomnia, Dong said.
Other studies have shown that asthma
patients experience more constricted airways than healthy control subjects in response to emotional stimuli.
Approximately 40 % of transplant
patients experience at least one episode of acute rejection in the first year after they receive an organ.
«Many Huntington's disease
patients experience psychiatric - related problems, such as depression and anxiety,» added Supriya Swarnkar, the first author of the study and a member of Subramaniam's lab.
Participating institutions employ a full - time surgical clinical reviewer who collects data in nearly 100 different categories, ranging from patient demographics to specific post-surgical complications
patients experience within 30 days of surgery.
«That could signal the shift between the depression and mania that
patients experience.»
«The ease with which this weight loss was achieved in mice — even with continued caloric binging — is in stark contrast to the Herculean difficulties morbidly obese
patients experience trying to preserve weight loss through dietary restraint,» adds Dr. Gendler.
Cortisone injections should be used with caution, as many
patients experience a relapse, and the long - term effects are uncertain.
Not only did
patients experience severe toxic symptoms from the treatment, but their T cell counts plummeted.
Nobody knows what, if anything, brain - dead
patients experience, and none of them could plausibly return to consciousness to tell us.
Hutchinson - Gilford progeria is caused by a spontaneous mutation during conception in a gene called LMNA, which encodes a protein called prelamin A. Progeria
patients experience a buildup of an abnormal version of prelamin A in their cells that, among other changes, distorts the nucleus and alters gene expression.
«There are currently no drug therapies available that improve the very limited natural recovery from spinal cord injuries that
patients experience,» said Lyn Jakeman, Ph.D., a program director at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD. «This is a great step towards identifying a novel agent for helping people recover.»
The first - line treatment for hand osteoarthritis — paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or opioids — is often not effective and
some patients experience adverse reactions.
But he points out that because
patients experience multiple types of itch, the new findings don't diminish the importance of the STT in sending itch information to the brain.
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School have identified inflammatory factors that cause optic neuropathy in the back of the eye following implantation of a keratoprosthesis (KPro)-- similar to what glaucoma
patients experience, without the rise of pressure in the eye — and have shown that blocking one of those factors, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFa), successfully halts the development of optic nerve damage in a mouse model.
Typically, psoriasis
patients experience recurrent flares of varying severity during their life.
Lung cancer
patients experience many debilitating symptoms including difficulty breathing, cough, fatigue, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and pain.
«These findings propose that
patients experience an improvement in social interactions stemming from the positive effect of rhinoplasty surgery on observer perceptions.
Many
patients experience mood and anxiety disorders, deny their illness and avoid seeking medical help for it.
These patients experience uncontrolled and frequent asthma symptoms that have a profound impact on their quality of life and health care costs.
This is typically when
patients experience the most problems with walking.
An autoimmune disease, ulcerative colitis inflames the colon and leaves it rife with open sores;
patients experience intense abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, rectal bleeding and weight loss.
Niacin binds its receptors to skin immune cells, causing many of the symptoms
patients experience: plethora (engorgement in skin vessels) and rubor (redness of the skin), as well as heat, swelling, pain, and frigor (cold / chills).
The pathology found in the dorsal root ganglia and sensory nerves may explain the localized pain and motor deficits that Lyme disease
patients experience close to the origin of the tick bite.
Team - based collaborative care between breast surgeons, plastic surgeons and radiation oncologists is critical to help
patients experience good outcomes,» says senior author Benjamin Smith, M.D., associate professor of radiation oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
During the later stages of the disease,
patients experience seizures, become wheelchair bound and can have trouble swallowing.
«Since obstructive sleep apnea is a treatable condition that is also commonly seen in MS, we wondered, «What if some of the thinking and processing difficulties that MS
patients experience do not stem directly from the MS itself, but from the effects of sleep apnea or other sleep problems?»»