Sentences with phrase «syndrome patients by»

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The researchers trialed their system on a female patient who has locked - in syndrome, a form of almost total paralysis caused by brain lesions, at the Royal Hospital for Neuro - disability in London.

It is characterised by inflammation and scaling of the skin, accompanied by a greater risk of contracting some type of metabolic syndrome, predisposing patients to pathologies, such as obesity, diabetes or cardiovascular diseases.

The presence of antibodies to lymphadenopathy - associated retrovirus (LAV) was determined by a radioimmunoprecipitation assay and by an enzyme - linked immunosorbent solid assay of sera from Zairian patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1983.

Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies from patients with the syndrome, applied to bovine adrenal chromaffin cells, reduced the voltage - dependent calcium channel currents by about 40 percent.

The illness was later renamed progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) to describe the weakness or paralysis (palsy) patients develop when brain areas that control eye movements are affected by the syndrome — which produces the classic symptom of motionless eyes described by Dickens.

Compared with healthy controls, patients with chronic fatigue syndrome had less activation of the basal ganglia, as measured by fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging).

The investigators obtained further evidence of the critical role of astroglial cells in Down syndrome by implanting the skin - cell derived astroglial cells from Down syndrome patients into mice.

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.

Zheng, together with Leah Boyer, then a researcher in Gage's lab and now director of Salk's Stem Cell Core, generated diseased neurons by taking skin cells from patients with Leigh syndrome, reprogramming them into stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a dish.

Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA.

Importantly, patients with mutations in a single copy of NKX2.1 often have Brain - Lung - Thyroid Syndrome, which is characterized by respiratory distress after birth and accompanied by decreased surfactant protein expression.

Prader - Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disease characterized by hyperphagia — a chronic feeling of hunger that, coupled with a metabolism that utilizes drastically fewer calories than normal, often leads to excessive eating and obesity in patients with the disease.

To test this, the researchers did a side - by - side comparison with cells isolated from elephants (n = 8), healthy humans (n = 10), and from patients with Li - Fraumeni Syndrome (n = 10).

Less p53 decreases the DNA damage response in patients with Li - Fraumeni Syndrome, and Schiffman's team wondered if more p53 could protect against cancer in elephants by heightening the response to damage.

What's more, none of the patients experienced macrophage activate syndrome or cytokine release syndrome, an infusion reaction observed in other gene therapy trials characterized by fever, nausea, chills, hypotension or a rash.

The researchers, led by Professor Sten Eirik W Jacobsen at the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and the Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford, investigated malignant cells in the bone marrow of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and followed them over time.

Triheptanoin is an investigational medicine being developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals for patients with fatty - acid metabolism disorders and Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome, which leads to epileptic seizures in young children.

Removal of the large intestine: Colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis, which removes the large intestine and attaches the small intestine to the rectum, is the primary treatment for patients affected by Lynch syndrome who have colon cancer or precancerous colon polyps that can not be removed by colonoscopy.

The international research team, led by scientists at the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, studied a group of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes — a malignant blood condition which frequently develops into acute myeloid leukaemia.

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.

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.

This mutation replicates the genetics of Coffin - Siris syndrome, a disorder that some patients with defects in the ARID1B gene have that is characterized by speech and social development problems, intellectual disability, and delayed physical growth.

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is giving researchers a first look at the early stages of brain development in patients with Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that causes mild to severe intellectual disability and is the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder.

But scientists working on the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus are puzzled by two papers appearing in separate journals that not only tell the same story, but also are based on data from the very same patient in Saudi Arabia.

In the case of the family examined by the Brigham Genomic Medicine Program (BGMP), the primary patient tested negative for the genetic mutations that cause Marfan syndrome as well as all other mutations known to cause TAAD.

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.

By comparing RNA sequencing with the Human Protein Atlas, we've also been able to identify new markers for the bile ducts that confirm the malformations that develop in patients with Alagille Syndrome.»

A new study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) identifies potential new therapeutic avenues for patients with Alagille syndrome.

Working at the University of California, Davis, the researchers created a new cellular model for studying Down syndrome by taking skin cells from patients with Down syndrome and inducing them into a pluripotent state.

Mesenchymal stromal cells from patients with myelodyplastic syndrome display distinct functional alterations that are modulated by lenalidomide.

«Kleefstra syndrome is characterized by mutations in EHMT1, and although these patients had similar clinical symptoms to Kleefstra syndrome, they didn't have the mutation.»

Our MDS center headed by Dr Amit Verma is recognized as a national «center of excellence» by the MDS Foundation and offers a variety of treatments and clinical trials for patients with Myelodysplastic syndromes.

Functional correction of T cells derived from patients with the Wiskott - Aldrich syndrome (WAS) by transduction with an oncoretroviral vector encoding the WAS protein.

Plus, the grant will help them work with researchers led by Doug Nordli, M.D., at the Lurie Children's Hospital at Northwestern University, which has a large clinical program for Dravet syndrome and will look at heart rhythm activity during and after seizures in its patients as part of the study.

The stem cells actually started out as skin cells donated by patients with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of childhood epilepsy — so they carry the genetic defect that causes that disease.

Prediction of short - and long - term outcomes by troponin T levels in low - risk patients evaluated for acute coronary syndromes

«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.

In patients with diseases like irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's, gut microbiome is often less diverse, altered by our low - plant - fiber Western diet and antibiotics.

For the trial, researchers enrolled 120 children from 2 to 18 years old with Dravet syndrome, a rare genetic form of epilepsy that kills up to 20 percent of patients by the time they are 20.

A recent study by Lombardi et al. [1] describing a gamma - retrovirus infection in 68 of 101 chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients was notable not only for its claim of a new viral aetiology of a hitherto controversial disease, but also for the fact that proviral DNA could be amplified from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of 3.75 % (8/218) of the healthy controls.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), described by patients as «brain fog», and recently renamed by the Institute of Medicine as «Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (SEID)», is a pertinent topic... -LSB-...]

Efficacy of individualised diets in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: a randomised controlled trial Ather Ali, 1 Theresa R Weiss, 1 Douglas McKee, 2 Alisa Scherban, 1 Sumiya Khan, 1 Maxine R Fields, 1 Damian Apollo, 1 Wajahat Z Mehal1 Published in BMJ, Open Gastroenterology View Publication Abstract Background Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are often placed on diets guided by food intolerance assays, although patients with irritable bowel syndrome: a randomised controlled trial Ather Ali, 1 Theresa R Weiss, 1 Douglas McKee, 2 Alisa Scherban, 1 Sumiya Khan, 1 Maxine R Fields, 1 Damian Apollo, 1 Wajahat Z Mehal1 Published in BMJ, Open Gastroenterology View Publication Abstract Background Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are often placed on diets guided by food intolerance assays, although Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are often placed on diets guided by food intolerance assays, although these...

Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome with a Food Elimination Diet Followed by Food Challenge and Probiotics https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.2006.10719567 «These data demonstrate that identifying and appropriately addressing food sensitivity in IBS patients not previously responding to standard therapy results in a sustained clinical response and impacts on overall well being and quality of life in this challenging entity.»

Case in point: I work with a functional med doc who, upon being asked by an obese patient with metabolic syndrome whether she should drink a can of diet pop or regular pop (because she absolutely had to have just one a day), the doc strongly recommeded the regular pop.

Berberine improves insulin sensitivity by inhibiting fat store and adjusting adipokines profile in human preadipocytes and metabolic syndrome patients.

There are dietary regimens prescribed by endocrinologists that go as low as 1000 calories a day, which when partnered with a prescribed mix of aerobic and strength exercises are aimed at treating diet - borne diseases like metabolic syndrome and diabetes — and they are perfectly safe for patients.

A syndrome is usually associated with several clinically recognizable features: signs (observed by a physician), symptoms (reported by the patient), and phenomena or characteristics; all of which often occur together.

A recent study showed that a new drug — developed by GW Pharmaceuticals and made from cannabidiol, which is one of the main compounds found in cannabis — was able to significantly reduce seizures in patients with Lennox - Gastaut syndrome.

Vincent Wants to Sea (Unrated) Road flick about a man with Tourette's Syndrome (Florian David Fitz) who runs away to Italy from a Bavarian rehabilitation center accompanied by his obsessive - compulsive roommate (Johannes Allmayer) and an anorexic patient (Karoline Herfurth) in order to fulfill his late mother's last request.

In fact, the nation's mental health professionals are reporting the rise of a phenomenon they're calling «Trump Syndrome,» which is heightened anxiety among patients caused by Trump's rise to power.