Sentences with phrase «period after a patient»

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The median return 24 months after a peak is -1 %, meaning that most of the losses seen in the six - month and 12 - month periods are recovered for patient investors.

Although the biotech has only conducted preclinical studies so far, there are several potential advantages to nonviral therapies, including being quicker to develop and possibly eliminating the need for a lengthy monitoring period of patients after treatment.

If somebody has had a terrible time in life and they have gone through one tragedy after another and you tell them that God loves them, they might just laugh at you... Many times we have to be willing to show people the love of God, and that can be anything from being patient over a long period of time to providing for a physical need that they have that may cost [us] some money.

«I have discovered that the practice here in Westphalia is to compile lists of such patients who are to be removed elsewhere as «unproductive citizens,» and after a period of time put to death.

[13] Few comments have come out after it, indicating that a welcome period of patient reflection has indeed arrived.

Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.

Some doctors routinely prescribe them in post-surgical patients who are not able to walk for an extended period after surgery, for example after hip replacement surgery.

A lot of my patients want to know when they will get their first period after pregnancy.

A prospective study of the progress of labor in 220 nulliparous women and 99 multiparous women who spontaneously entered labor evaluated the benefit of prolonging oxytocin augmentation for an additional 4 hours (for a total of 8 hours) in patients who were dilated at least 3 cm and had unsatisfactory progress (either protraction or arrest) after an initial 4 - hour augmentation period (21).

Currently, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends (link is external) that physicians screen patients at least once for depression during the perinatal period (link is external)(22 weeks of pregnancy through 7 days after birth.)

After a recovery period of approximately two months — during which the woman's chest skin heals, blood supply replenishes, and the expanders are gradually inflated to stretch the skin — the patient returns for an outpatient surgical procedure to replace the tissue expanders with permanent breast implants.

Given the risk of depression was highest in the period right after the first time a patient presented to a physician for acne concerns, it shows just how impactful our skin can be towards our overall mental health» said lead author Dr. Isabelle Vallerand, of the University of Calgary, in Canada.

Patients who had cardiac arrests lasting for a brief period before receiving CPR (less than three minutes on average) were tested between two to four years after the incident.

Over a 30 - day period, seniors were 54 percent more likely to be readmitted to the hospital compared to patients younger than 65 years, the study reports, after accounting for differences in other medical problems.

The patient's pain was drastically reduced after a period of treatment with the new method.

«That is why we have followed the composition of the intestinal microbiota of patients using modern DNA sequencing methods over a period of up to three months after treatment.»

Researchers estimate that as many as 2.1 million patients with mild cognitive impairment could develop Alzheimer's dementia over a two - decade period while waiting for evaluation and treatment resources after approval of an Alzheimer's disease - modifying therapy by the federal Food and Drug Administration.

Patients who have atrial fibrillation after surgery are at risk of stroke in the postoperative period.

Eight of nine patients who are evaluable for response had no evidence of disease in their bone marrow at three months, and all remain in remission after a median follow - up period of six months, with a range from 0.5 to 9 months.

A study that synthesized more than 50 years of research into suicide rates for patients after discharge from psychiatric facilities suggests the immediate period after discharge was a time of marked risk and that the risk remained high years after discharge, according to a new article published by JAMA Psychiatry.

Patients» situation was analysed after a three - month physical therapy period, and again after 12 months.

«And this study adds emphasis to the idea that patients are susceptible to a wide range of conditions after a hospitalization — they are a highly vulnerable population and we need to focus intently on making the immediate post-discharge period safer.»

Following an extended period of dissertation research, students face the difficult problem of reintegrating themselves into clinical training, after three or more years away from clinical medicine and patient contact.

Patients in clinical remission — whose tumors have disappeared or are significantly reduced in size — are given a course of immune treatment after a six - month rest period following chemotherapy.

(After this time period, stroke patients typically experience little additional recovery.)

For HIV patients, the further course of disease is determined by the set point because viral load values remain constant over a long period of time after this.

The timing for the assessment at 3 months is optimal because the first weeks after the prescription is given is the critical period of primary non-adherence, when patients are most likely to have discontinued treatment.

In study results recently published online in Experimental Neurology, breathing function improved in patients after gene therapy, compared to a period of treatment with breathing exercises before the gene therapy.

The study reviewed patients over a 16 - year period who were evaluated at a pediatric trauma center after sustaining injury while participating in ice hockey.

After a 10 - month follow - up period, γc transgene — expressing T and NK cells were detected in two patients.

After participating in an 8 - week baseline period followed by 12 weeks of brivaracetam treatment, patients became eligible for long - term follow - up to monitor the drug's efficacy and safety.

Drugs work for while, but patients may get sick again because dormant bacteria within them «re-activate» after a latent period, or because they get a new infection from an external source.

Recovery after a traditional knee replacement is four to five months, but Bryan's patients who have received the new knee implant are averaging a three to four month recovery period.

«What we see is an association between shorter periods of progression - free survival and overall survival in patients whose blood has higher levels of hypermethylated DNA, and we can see this very early on, after just four weeks of treatment,» says Sara Sukumar, Ph.D., professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Kimmel Cancer Center, who developed the test with Johns Hopkins scientist Mary Jo Fackler, Ph.D., and others.

After a median follow - up period of 36 months, three patients randomized to continue treatment (17 %) and 10 patients in the discontinuation arm (67 %) had a molecular relapse; all three of the former patients had stopped imatinib treatment after randomizaAfter a median follow - up period of 36 months, three patients randomized to continue treatment (17 %) and 10 patients in the discontinuation arm (67 %) had a molecular relapse; all three of the former patients had stopped imatinib treatment after randomizaafter randomization.

Patients can be diagnosed with metastatic disease at the time of their breast cancer diagnosis or after a period of time has elapsed since their initial early breast cancer was treated.

«We have just begun introducing these kinds of tests to patients in the clinic after a period of research use and placing ourselves this high in competition with teams from well - established and renowned groups in the field is a true sign of quality».

Because prions have a long incubation period, even 30 to 40 years after the practice of using human cadaveric hormones was stopped, patients who received those treatments continue to show signs of CJD.

After treating hundreds of patients with osteoporosis over a period of 15 years, I found that those women with the lowest bone densities experienced the greatest relative improvement, and those who had good bone density to begin with, maintained their strong bones.

After the initial «breaking» in period, we always work with the patients to find out what they prefer to do.

In this [pioneering] study, obese patients were subjected to a variety of performance assessments in a baseline period, then after 1 and 6 weeks of weight loss via protein - sparing modified fast (1.2 g / kg ideal body weight from lean meat, fish, or fowl; probably around 80 grams of protein / d, 500 - 750 kcal / d).

Among those who tolerated the diet, two patients died early, one stopped after 2 weeks due to personal reasons, one felt unable to stick to the diet after 4 weeks, one stopped after 6 and two stopped after 7 and 8 weeks due to progress of the disease, one had to discontinue after 6 weeks to resume chemotherapy and five completed the 3 month intervention period.

After the first four weeks, the patients were allowed to take up to six tablets of «Super Malic» twice a day for a period of six months.

A deficiency can also surface after a patient has been treated by antibiotics for a long period of time.

After 12 weeks of the test period the patients receiving amino acids for lung disease had showed significant improvements in physical performance.

I see this frequently; that is, hormones ceasing to work after being on them for a prolonged period of time, only to leave the patient back where they started (if not worse off than where they started).

After the base - line period, all the patients received both the ADA diet and the high - fiber diet, each diet for a period of six weeks.

The idea sprang from my Yoga for the Pelvic Floor program which I was implementing in the clinic with my patients and after attending 3 yoga retreats in a 3 month time period.

However, after the fasting period, patients were instructed to go on a low calorie diet.

I started getting serious with treating psoriasis patients in the early 1990's, and began to develop my own methods over a period of several years after studying over two dozen books on psoriasis.