Sentences with phrase «syndrome patients with»

He secured a small grant to do a rigorous investigation comparing cancer rates in the Laron syndrome patients with those of their relatives of normal height.

Not exact matches

The Xarelto partnership is seeking additional approved uses, with trials underway in patients with acute coronary syndrome, and for reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure or peripheral artery disease.

I tell you that if within one day everyone in the world woke up to all cancer patients completely and permanently cured, all amputees with their limbs restored, all sëx traffickers turned loose their victims, all child abuse stopped and captives turned loose, everybody laid down their weapons and shook hands, and all down syndrome and other people with genetic maladies were cured; all this taken together, would definitely get the entire worlds attention, would it not?

But hey what do I know I'm not a nun with Stockholm Syndrome so I am doubtlessly missing some esoteric point that totally escapes me unless I think of them as mental patients, which they sort of are...

Sanders, D.S., M.J. Carter, D.P. Hurlstone, et al., «Association of Adult Coeliac Disease With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Case - Control Study in Patients Fulfilling ROME II Criteria Referred to Secondary Care,» Lancet, 358:1504 - 1508, 2001.

Every clinician who routinely treat athletes with post-concussion syndrome (i.e. patients whose symptoms after suffering a sports - related concussion persist for months or years), with whom I spoke for this article expressed variations of the same concern: that their patients, hearing media reports about athletes suffering symptoms associated with CTE (such as depression), were losing hope of a full recovery, to the point of considering suicide.

Currently, as the Medical Director at The Fertility Center of Las Vegas, Dr. Shapiro's special interests include women over the age of 35, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), and patients with previously unsuccessful IVF cycles.

Patients with autism, cerebral palsy, attention deficit disorder, Down syndrome, and other developmental and behavioral conditions

Long - term treatment with probiotics in primary care patients with irritable bowel syndrome — a randomised, double - blind, placebo controlled trial.

To better understand their findings, the team examined the animal model for APS1 (i.e. mice with the same genetic defect as human patients with the syndrome) and found that male mice spontaneously developed an inflammatory disease in their prostate glands — a so - called prostatitis — and reacted to transglutaminase 4.

To develop their «disease in a dish» model, the team took skin cells from patients with Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which then can be developed into any type of tissue in the body.

Goebel points out that the patients still need to be able to control their eye movements, which people with total locked - in syndrome can not.

A brain imaging study shows that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome may have reduced responses, compared with healthy controls, in a region of the brain connected with fatigue.

This could help explain why some patients with IBD and other conditions develop bacterial overgrowth, such as patients who develop ileus, which is a syndrome that can occur following intestinal surgery when there is a prolonged delay in the body's ability to resume normal peristaltic motions.

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.

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

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are often concerned that certain foods may trigger or worsen their symptoms, which can include abdominal pain, diarrhea, or constipation.

Most patients with Beckwith - Wiedemann have no family history of the syndrome, but this child had an aunt and grandmother with features of it, suggesting he might be one of the rare inherited cases.

To Kalish, the patients who are diagnosed with the syndrome after they develop cancer, like the little girl whose adrenal tumor set off alarm bells, have her wondering whether the incidence of Beckwith - Wiedemann is higher than reported.

When he returned to Cambridge two years later, O'Rahilly began developing a tight network of physicians who send send him patients with baffling metabolic syndromes.

In this study, Nath and his colleagues compared serum samples from patients with Nodding syndrome and healthy controls who all lived in the same village in Uganda.

They found that a certain protein, known as S100B, is markedly increased in astroglial cells from patients with Down syndrome compared with those from healthy controls.

«Modified rye bread helps patients with irritable bowel syndrome.»

In a 2010 study, Harvard medical researcher Ted Kaptchuk showed that some patients with irritable bowel syndrome improved even when they knew the treatment they were being given was a sham, suggesting that deception could, at least in some cases, be unnecessary.

Indeed, so many patients have developed HUS that German physicians have treated more than 200 people with the antibody eculizumab, which had previously only been used to treat three infection - related cases of the syndrome.

For Frankovich, Paul Michael was patient zero — her first encounter with a newly recognized, still - controversial diagnosis called pediatric acute - onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, or PANS.

Changes in the genetic code (mutations) that reduce TET2 function are found in 10 percent of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), 30 percent of those with a form of pre-leukemia called myelodysplastic syndrome, and in nearly 50 percent of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

The data suggest that this immunosuppression - only approach could benefit patients with DC — and, perhaps, other bone marrow failure syndromes — who are at high risk of poor transplant outcomes because they can not tolerate the toxicity of conventional or even reduced - intensity conditioning.

Currently, Deng's laboratory is conducting additional preclinical studies using the human - derived stem cells from Down syndrome patients and mouse models to determine whether cellular and behavioral abnormalities can be improved with minocycline therapy and other candidate drugs.

Other proposed changes run the gamut from eliminating the term «mental retardation» — to be replaced with a new «intellectual disability» category — to introducing diagnoses such as «psychosis risk syndrome» and «mild neurocognitive disorder,» which are designed to catch patients in the early stages of a disorder.

The disease is generally pretty mild — on par with flu — but health workers have recently found that a small number of patients seem to go on to develop an autoimmune disorder that can cause nerve damage and paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome.

They sequenced the gene coding for the receptor in patients with either severe skin allergies or hyper - IgE syndrome, a rare condition in which the body produces too much IgE.

Seidman and his colleagues analyzed data from interviews with 596 subjects, ages 12 to 35 years, who were diagnosed with Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome, a condition in which patients may experience hallucinations and / or develop unusual thoughts but recognize their perceptions aren't based in reality.

In a process called cellular reprogramming, researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have taken mature blood cells from patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and reprogrammed them back into iPSCs to study the genetic origins of this rare blood cancer.

These results predict that Dravet syndrome patients may have better social interactions and fewer autism - like symptoms when treated with low doses of cannabidiol.

Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

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.

The human UFD1L gene was deleted in all 182 patients studied with 22q11 deletion, and a smaller deletion of approximately 20 kilobases that removed exons 1 to 3 ofUFD1L was found in one individual with features typical of 22q11 deletion syndrome.

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.

Mouse Ufd1 was specifically expressed in most tissues affected in patients with 22q11 deletion syndrome.

John Donoghue, a neuroscientist at Brown University who led the cursor - controlling experiment, and colleagues tested the idea on two patients with «locked - in» syndrome.

For most Dravet patients these seizures can not be treated adequately with currently available anti-epileptic drugs, and therefore the syndrome is classified as pharmacoresistant.

All 10 patients who received the CTL119 cells experienced mild cytokine release syndrome (CRS), a known potentially lethal type of toxicity, within a few days after receiving their infusions; however, none required treatment with tocilizumab, an immunosuppressant drug that blocks the effects of the inflammatory cytokine IL - 6.

A new European joint consensus document on the use of antithrombotic drugs, including the non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs), in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) presenting with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and undergoing PCI is published in the European Heart Journal.

«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.

A new study of patients who survive the once - nearly fatal Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) finds their subsequent quality of life has more to do with lifestyle factors than how sick they were in the hospital.

«We examined L1 - CAM from a patient with CRASH syndrome in which L1 - CAM was mutated.

Patients with adrenal failure, and also innate adrenal illnesses like the congenital adrenal syndrome may benefit from this research.

His team has previously found cancer patients with an anorexic and muscle - wasting syndrome called cachexia also have high blood levels of GDF15.