Sentences with phrase «small subset of patients»

«It might have a role, but in a very, very small subset of patients,» Ismail said, what a crock.

«It might have a role, but in a very, very small subset of patients,» Ismail said, «and I don't think we've identified that subset of patients with a really good randomized controlled trial.»

Nephrotic syndrome without interstitial nephritis may occur, as well as immune - complex glomerulopathy, in a small subset of patients receiving NSAIDs.

A small subset of patients may also get Graves» dermopathy, according to the Mayo Clinic, which causes reddening and thickening of the skin on the front of the shins and the tops of the feet.

But the researchers noticed a small subset of patients who had significant response and remained on the drug for an extended time.

«This probably only explains a small subset of patients with pulmonary fibrosis,» he says.

«There has been a tremendous effort over the past several years to block EGFR as a treatment for lung cancer, but this therapy only works in a small subset of patients.

And a small subset of patients need their drugs.

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But, these studies have focused on small groups of hospitals and selected subsets of patients.

He benefits from a medication that targets the underlying cause of the disease for a small subset of cystic fibrosis patients.»

It suggests that at the root of any cancer there is a small subset of cancer cells that are solely responsible for driving the growth and evolution of a patient's cancer.

Yet research and clinical observations over the past 40 years have raised concerns that these drugs produce suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts and possibly even suicide in a small subset of depressed patients.

But only a small subset — 5 % — of heart patients are suitable candidates for stem cell injections, said Amit Patel of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The fusion of these two genes was observed in just three percent of tumors studied, so any therapy based on this particular genetic aberration would apply to only a small subset of glioblastoma patients.

Numerous FDA - approved immunotherapies — such as Keytruda and Opdivo — have shown spectacular results, although the subset of the patient population responding to the treatment is still small.

In addition, a small subset of normal tissues will be collected from living surgery patients as a comparison group.

Struggling to find more in - depth answers, Loggia noted that American and German researchers have recently identified a subset of fibromyalgia patients who appear to have abnormalities in some of their peripheral small nerve fibers.

The average growth period for this subset of patients is 12 to 18 months, and they reach maturity between 18 to 24 months, much later than smaller - breed dogs.