Sentences with phrase «weeks after a patient»

But it had by then become possible to sustain heart and lung activity (with a respirator) for days or even weeks after a patient had irreversibly lost all brain function.

Gene therapy death The Food and Drug Administration stopped a gene therapy trial this week after a patient undergoing the experimental treatment for a severe form of arthritis had a fatal reaction.

At Colchester General Hospital, the researchers looked at MR scans taken both before treatment and six weeks after the patients had completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and found that the patients whose tumors were less heterogeneous — ie more uniform — in terms of texture parameters six weeks after treatment were more likely to survive longer.

At Colchester General Hospital, the researchers looked at MR scans taken both before treatment and six weeks after the patients had completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and found that the patients whose tumours were less heterogeneous — ie more uniform - in terms of texture parameters six weeks after treatment were more likely to survive longer.

There are four stages of canine kidney disease determined by tests conducted over several weeks after a patient is hydrated and is coming off of a fast.

Not exact matches

But surgeons who swear by their robotic arms tend to return to the same words of praise: They tout the «speed of recovery» for patients, who typically don't need to spend days or weeks in a hospital as they might after traditional open surgery.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

Respondents who had robotic surgeries reported less pain after a day and a week, and there were no differences between the two types of patients after 12 weeks when it came to sexual function or urinary control.

None that escaped the Hollywood nursing home where eight patients died last week after Hurricane Irma knocked out power to the air conditioning system.

During a study that led to Dupixent's approval, injections every other week, combined with topical steroid creams helped 69 % of patients achieve 75 % clear skin, after 16 weeks of treatment.

The patient was felt to need the daily support of the therapist until these new habits were firmly rooted, after which the therapist met the patient once or twice a week.

«I have had so many patients bring their children in and they say, you know what, the week after I had that immunization, for MMR — measles, mumps and rubella — my child stopped talking, my child stopped giving me eye contact.

One volunteer simply played Scrabble with his patient week after week.

Wenger was pleased with the win, but thought that his team were tired after playing three games in a week, and had to sit back, be patient, and wait for our opponents to tire themselves out as well.

Your baby may try the sign herself after a few days, or it may take several weeks — be patient.

«Patients and their families should expect the physical symptoms that they experience after a head injury to get better over the next few weeks, but that emotional symptoms may come on later, even as the physical symptoms subside,» said lead researcher Dr. Matthew Eisenberg.

One day last week, after seeing my patients, I checked my messages and listened to one from a reporter wanting to ask me some questions about World Breastfeeding Week (Wweek, after seeing my patients, I checked my messages and listened to one from a reporter wanting to ask me some questions about World Breastfeeding Week (WWeek (WBW).

Concussion patients have irregular brain activity within the first 24 hours after their injury but increased levels of brain activity a few weeks later, which suggests that the brain may compensate for the injury during recovery, a new study reports.

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.)

In patients after 28 weeks of gestation with an intrauterine fetal demise and a prior cesarean scar, cervical ripening with a transcervical Foley catheter has been associated with uterine rupture rates comparable with spontaneous labor (106, 114, 149, 150), and this may be a helpful adjunct in patients with an unfavorable cervical examination.

Most obstetricians request to see their C - section patients about two weeks after the operation.

Today's recommendations come just weeks after the health select committee called on NHS Digital to stop sharing patients» data with the Home Office while a review into the policy is carried out.

Canada's heart surgery patients wait more than 10 weeks after seeing the doctor, and two months for CABG even after cardiologist appointments.

The temporary closing of Dr. Eugene J. Gosy's Amherst medical office after his criminal indictment last week — cutting off hundreds, if not thousands, of his panic - stricken patients from their opioid medications — has created a public health crisis in Erie County.

Just weeks after he was named chief medical officer at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Dr. Boris Kuvshinoff was diagnosed with an inoperable late - stage tumor in the nasal cavity above his mouth and became a patient there.

According to research by the think tank, the King's Fund, last year 93 % of patients waited less than two weeks to see a specialist after they were referred by a GP.

Additional data from this study, also presented at The International Liver CongressTM today in Barcelona, Spain, show that 97 % of patients with the same HCV genotype, but without scarred livers, achieved SVR12 after eight weeks on the same treatment without ribavirin (RBV).

Hep C patients being treated for opioid addiction achieved high rates of sustained virologic response after 12 weeks of therapy with elbasvir - grazoprevir compared to those taking placebo for 12 weeks before beginning the drug treatment.

April 16, 2016, Barcelona, Spain: A Hepatitis C (HCV) drug currently under investigation, ABT - 493 and ABT - 530, which is an all - oral once - daily antiviral treatment, helped HCV genotype 3 patients with heavily scarred livers and no previous treatment history to achieve a 100 % sustained virologic response after receiving the treatment for 12 weeks (SVR12).

It's common knowledge that patients should quit smoking cigarettes at least a few weeks before and after surgery, but is it safe to «vape» before surgery?

Patients were treated for 12 weeks with the 3 - drug combination regimen, with 24 weeks of follow - up after completion of treatment.

«We found that a statistically significant percentage of secukinumab - treated moderate to severe psoriasis patients achieved an up to 90 percent skin clearance after 12 weeks, and with continued treatment, a majority of these patients had maintained those results at 52 weeks,» Elewski said.

A research team in Israel reported evidence of hyperalgesia in 17 of 30 patients with radiating spinal nerve pain by asking them to rate the intensity of heat pain on a numerical scale before and after a 4 - week course of hydromorphone.

In a second surgical procedure less than a week after the brain surgery, Velly and his colleagues took readings from the deep - brain electrodes in 25 patients while also collecting electrode readings from their scalp.

And so, after suffering a neurological catastrophe, being declared dead, still having to endure several weeks of pregnancy, then giving birth via cesarean section, the patient can still be rolled off to have her organs removed.

One moderate sacral insufficiency fracture occurred in one patient at the highest tested dose of 20 mg / kg every three weeks after 6 cycles.

Among patients who had hit their heads and had normal CT scans, most were slightly worse at 1 - 2 weeks after the injury, and subsequently recovered about one month after the injury.

In two studies appearing in the May 5 issue of JAMA, patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection and with or without cirrhosis achieved high rates of sustained virologic response after 12 weeks of treatment with a combination of the direct - acting - antiviral drugs daclatasvir, asunaprevir, and beclabuvir.

After a six - week course the patient was judged to be in remission and rated «normal» on the HAM - D scale, Lin says.

After multiple doses over two weeks, 9 of 10 patients showed significant improvement.

When the researchers transferred gut microbes from the twins into mice predisposed to develop a disease similar to MS, they found that after 12 weeks, three times as many mice receiving bacteria from MS patients developed brain inflammation as those receiving microbes from healthy donors.

After 24 weeks, virus levels were undetectable — defined as less than 50 copies per milliliter of blood — in 62 percent of patients receiving TMC125, compared with 44 percent that received only the other drugs.

Non-adherence is common in diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease where only 33 % of patients continue their drugs after 10 weeks.

In a perspective in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessment.

After four weeks of hospital treatment, the subjects taking the drug reported fewer spontaneous and stress - induced alcohol cravings than patients given a placebo did.

In addition, 50 % of patients in both treatment groups showed a positive response to the drug after three weeks of treatment, and their symptoms decreased over the entire 12 weeks of follow - up.

Twelve weeks after drug treatment had ended, the researchers did not detect hepatitis C virus in the patients» blood.

Charging that thousands of patients are being misled and may be unnecessarily placed at increased risk of death, a U.S. watchdog group last week demanded that federal regulators suspend a major clinical trial exploring when to offer blood transfusions after a heart attack.

After just nine weeks of internet - delivered cognitive behavioral therapy, the brain of patients suffering from social anxiety disorder changes in volume.

In that case, six patients suspended antiretroviral therapy for 12 weeks after infusion with zinc finger nuclease — altered CD4 cells.