Sentences with phrase «syndrome patient saying»

Is the Cotard's syndrome patient saying, «I think, therefore I'm not»?

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Susan Schulman, a pediatrician in New York, says she's seen hundreds of cases of a related condition, called PANS (pediatric acute - onset neuropsychiatric syndrome), in her patients.

Some patients, the lawsuit said, intentionally allowed themselves to slip into diabetic ketoacidosis — a blood syndrome that can be fatal — to get insulin from hospital emergency rooms.

Katie Shreve, assistant patient care manager at the Kentucky Children's Hospital NICU, said the idea for an infant massage training initially stemmed from a need for a complimentary treatment for infants experiencing neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS).

Ion S. Jovin, MD, FACC, the study's lead author and medical director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, said that the study's results are consistent with data from contemporary studies of patients with acute coronary syndrome and STEMI.

George Daley of Harvard Medical School said on December 1 that he and his team have seen multiple patients affected by NEMO deficiency syndrome, a disorder where an inherited faulty gene results in a weak immune system and leaves patients prone to serious infections.

And it suggests that stem cells derived from embryos should remain the primary reference for iPS cells when researchers want to compare how cells from diseased patients behave, says Nissim Benvenisty of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has studied differences between ES cells and iPS cells derived from carriers of fragile X syndrome.

«I really wanted the corpus callosum to be narrower in the patients with the syndrome,» he says, because this could have led to a new diagnostic test for the disease.

«Rett syndrome patients have a mutation that makes macrophages hyper - sensitive to specific stress signals,» said Vladimir Litvak, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and physiological systems and co-senior author of the study.

Black said the researchers will aim to replicate these findings in additional patients and determine if and how the brain regions they identified may contribute to Tourette's syndrome, with a goal of developing more effective therapies.

«Irritable bowel syndrome takes a real toll on patients,» Dr Hughes says.

Dr Lucy Clark, lead author, Queen Mary University of London, UK, said: «We found that a self - help approach to a graded exercise program, guided by a therapist, was safe and also helped to reduce fatigue for some people with chronic fatigue syndrome, suggesting that GES might be useful as an initial treatment for patients to help manage symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.

But when Sly syndrome patients produce just 1 per cent of the βglucoronidase found in healthy people, their symptoms are much milder than those of patients who produce no enzyme at all, says Heard.

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Daniel J Clauw, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Centre, the University of Michigan, USA, says: «The finding that graded exercise therapy is effective even when exercise is not being witnessed and directly guided by a physiotherapist is a substantial advance, since many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and other functional impairment have difficulty getting to physiotherapy or do not have access to appropriately trained physiotherapists... In summary, findings from this pragmatic randomised controlled trial add to the evidence that straightforward, non-pharmacological therapies can be helpful in the management of symptoms such as fatigue in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome.

«Short bowel syndrome is a devastating illness requiring patients to be fed intravenously,» says gastroenterologist Peter Ngo, MD, a coauthor on the study.

Dr. Siqueira said she and her colleagues are now investigating whether the problem was the result of an auto - immune disorder sparked by one of the viruses that caused the immune system to attack nerve cells, similar to what occurs in Zika patients who develop Guillain - Barré Syndrome.

«Obesity - related illnesses, particularly obesity hypoventilation syndrome and sleep apnea, may play a role in the development of pulmonary hypertension, and so we examined whether the protective effects of obesity seen in patients with heart failure were also seen in these patients,» said researcher Jose Caceres, MD, of Jacobi Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.

«The initial drop in available phosphate puts patients at risk of a lethal heart arrhythmia and failure, the most serious aspect of refeeding syndrome,» says senior author Angela Guarda, M.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Eating Disorders Program.

«Rett syndrome patients have a mutation that makes macrophages hyper - sensitive to specific stress signals,» Dr. Litvak said.

More than 90 percent of those diagnosed with the syndrome are women, said Eshel Ben - Jacob, a lead author of the proof - of - concept study who developed the analytical method used to show the association between patients» improvement and changes in their brains.

«It started with patients that were suspected to have Kleefstra syndrome, but didn't have the genetic mutation for it,» said Kramer who is also a Canada Research Chair in Neuroepigentics.

Kramer says now that the mutation is known, there will likely be more patients diagnosed with this new syndrome and he hopes this will give some comfort to those families and may help to inform treatment options in the future.

«This study reinforces our previous research by noting that the elective freezing of embryos is safer for all IVF patients (ovulatory and anovulatory) by reducing the risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome,» Legro said.

Blood samples from 42 patients diagnosed with Guillain - Barre syndrome during a Zika virus outbreak in French Polynesia provide the first hard evidence that the mosquito - borne Zika virus might cause this severe neurological disorder, researchers said.

«My doctor diagnosed me with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) but then had no idea how to treat it other than to tell me to reduce my intake of gassy foods» my 34 - year - old patient Maria said during her initial visit.

Having said that, I do think that patients with the metabolic syndrome, glucose intolerance or type II diabetes could benefit from a lower carbohydrate, Paleolithic type diet.

«Seeing a pure syndrome — in which the patient only shows the symptoms of one disorder without any symptoms of another — is pretty rare,» says Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD, chairman of the University of Miami Health System's department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

Could we have this systemic inflammation thing happening and pain may be the first indicator for people that have that genetic predisposition, but we also see autoimmune issues, maybe even type I diabetes or MS, so how many other — they call it PGAS or polyglandular autoimmune syndrome and they say, I think 78 % of people that have one autoimmune condition, maybe it's RA or some type of fibromyalgia pain, probably have another one, how much of the people — patients that you're seeing individually in your office are having more than just the pain?

I certainly have seen plenty of evidence in my clinic, after having treated several thousand patients with adrenal fatigue since I began to specialize in this syndrome since 2006, and the results have been spectacular to say the least.

Somewhere around when I said the word «swim,» a gulp of water made it back up my esophagus and dribbled out my mouth as I coughed — the actions of a mental patient or someone who had experienced a face - debilitating syndrome.

ALTERNATE URL False Memory Syndrome (FMS) purportedly arises from «recovered memory therapy,» a theoretical practice said to be capable of creating memories of childhood sexual abuse in psychotherapy patients.