Example sentences of "[prep] patients [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the number of stones is limited , especially the group of solitary stones with a maximal diameter below 20 mm , the results are excellent with 84% of patients stone free after one year . |
| 2 | The finding of normal cholesterol values in the group of patients undergoing similar preparation before colonoscopy , eliminated the preparatory protocol as a contributor to the lowered cholesterol values . |
| 3 | In 1949 Lemon and Byrne reported a large series of patients undergoing duodenal aspiration cytology with a test sensitivity of over 70% . |
| 4 | With the exception of patients withdrawn due to deterioration , there were no apparent differences in response to treatment . |
| 5 | Doctors should take a careful history and be aware of this problem in the regular follow up of patients using metered dose inhalers long term . |
| 6 | Although women comprise the minority of patients receiving antiarrhythmic drugs for ventricular arrhythmias , they represent almost half the reported cases of torsades de pointes due to class 1 drugs . |
| 7 | In this study , 43% of patients developed acute pancreatitis . |
| 8 | Over 40 per cent of patients had other problems ranging from the clinically serious ( rare ) to the medically less important ( more common ) . |
| 9 | These two groups of patients had similar demographic and clinical characteristics ( Table II ) . |
| 10 | The trial was , however , relatively small ( 59 patients ) raising the possibility of a type two error , and it is possible that fluticasone propionate was not present in sigmoid colon and rectum and this could not have a therapeutic effect ( two thirds of patients had rectosigmoid disease only ) . |
| 11 | These apparent food sensitivities were often not persistent and only 24% of patients identified the same food on rechallenge , and 15% of patients had positive double blind challenge . |
| 12 | A mean of eight percent of patients developed postoperative sepsis and we have classified patients as having de developed postoperative sepsis if they have developed two out of three of the following , a temperature of greater than thirty eight degrees celsius , or a positive blood culture . |
| 13 | In addition , it has been shown that Ac-ASA is the form of the drug predominantly found in the rectal mucosa of patients taking oral sulphasalazine . |
| 14 | This inhibition occurs at concentrations of 5ASA and N-acetyl 5ASA found in the rectal lumen of patients taking therapeutic doses of 5ASA containing compounds and is of the same magnitude as the reduction in IFN γ induced HLA-DR expression . |
| 15 | These concentrations are of the same order as those found in the plasma of patients taking 5-ASA preparations orally ( 10–15 µm ) and are far lower than those required to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , lipoxygenase , or the binding of FMLP to neutrophils ( IC 5 10 , 6 , and >5 mM respectively ) or those found within the colonic lumen of these patients ( 10–20 mM ) . |
| 16 | By the end of the century , use of drugs in cases of terminal illness was more common ; but many would have shaken their heads at the thought of patients dying drugged , as is the norm today . |
| 17 | Microscopic examination of specimens from the second group of patients showed active duodenitis in nine patients ( 10% ) , whereas a mononuclear infiltrate without intraepithelial neutrophils was found in 32 ( 37% ) . |
| 18 | Survivors of sudden cardiac death : a rational approach to evaluation and therapy of patients surviving ventricular fibrillation . |
| 19 | Monitoring and encouraging drug maintenance is largely an administrative task which requires flexible hospital and clinic opening times , a local register of patients needing regular treatment , and for social and clinical services to maintain a constant link to ensure continuous monitoring ( Freeman , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | Cancer incidence was not increased in patients taking atenolol as compared with controls and with patients taking other forms of treatment ( table III ) . |
| 21 | This form of acquired dyslexia is sometimes called pure alexia or alexia without agraphia , the reason being that , as a rule , these patients have no impairment of writing or spelling , and so they contrast with patients having other kinds of acquired dyslexia , all of whom have had impaired writing and spelling as well as impaired reading . |
| 22 | Although Angela Coulter and Jean Bradlow report no change in referral patterns in 16 general practices studied , we report a case that highlights the problems associated with patients travelling considerable distances for treatment of common conditions . |
| 23 | The proposals contained within the government 's White Paper Working for patients initiated widespread and quite heated debate . |
| 24 | Gastric juice was then collected from patients undergoing routine diagnostic gastroscopy who had fasted for at least eight hours . |
| 25 | The normal age involution of the thymus does not occur in patients with myasthenia gravis or ulcerative colitis , and the T cells obtained from the thymus of patients with myasthenia gravis and ulcerative colitis have reduced ratios of suppressor ( CD8 + ) to helper ( CD4 + ) T cells when compared with T cells obtained from patients having elective cardiac surgery . |
| 26 | The frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms was not consistently increased in patients harbouring specific infective agents compared with non-infected patients . |
| 27 | Thus we have shown a high frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhoea and weight loss in non-infected patients which was not consistently increased in patients harbouring specific infective agents . |
| 28 | In patients undergoing coronary artery revascularisation , epicardial implantable cardioverter defibrillator ( ICD ) patch electrodes and rate sensing leads can be placed at the time of surgery . |
| 29 | Such agents have been used effectively in patients undergoing dental , orthopaedic , hepatic , vascular , and neurosurgery procedures , but most of the data on the use of such drugs have accrued from cardiac surgery . |
| 30 | Concern has been raised , however , about the increased potential for thromboembolism in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |