Example sentences of "patients [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty two patients referred for liquid stool incontinence were considered . |
| 2 | Patients referred for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy because of suspected duodenal ulcers were invited to participate in the study . |
| 3 | Of the 146 patients referred for endoscopic treatment of choledocholithiasis the overall success rate for clearing the common bile duct stones was 72.6% which is somewhat lower than other reported series but might reflect the selection of patients to a specialised centre . |
| 4 | There was no difference in the number of patients referred for dietary advice or chiropody . |
| 5 | We have recently assessed the frequency of the coeliac like intestinal antibody pattern , a candidate marker of latent coeliac disease , in patients referred for diagnostic small bowel biopsy . |
| 6 | There were therefore , 375 patients referred for diagnostic purposes . |
| 7 | Patients referred for diagnostic studies were grouped according to their symptoms , whether symptoms developed after operation , and according to the stated anticipation of the result , slow or fast emptying , recorded by the referring clinician . |
| 8 | Abnormal results were obtained for three of nine other patients referred for gastric emptying tests ( systemic sclerosis — 3 patients , gastro-oesophageal reflux — 2 patients , distal pancreatectomy — 2 patients , adult hypertrophic pyloric stenosis — 1 patient , chronic renal failure — 1 patient ) . |
| 9 | To assess long term survival ( >5 years ) and quality of life in severely ill patients referred for urgent cardiac transplantation . |
| 10 | Thirty six consecutive patients treated for severe acute pancreatitis and its complications in the intensive care unit of the University Central Hospital of Turku were included in the study . |
| 11 | Of the original cohort of 33 patients considered for urgent transplantation , however , 16 had insertion of an intra-aortic balloon pump , but only two of these have survived long term . |
| 12 | Based on these findings , and on those by Villanova et al showing that : ( i ) patients with multiple primary stones tend to develop multiple recurrent stones while those who originally had solitary stones tend to develop single stone recurrence ; and ( ii ) the recurrence rate in those who initially had solitary stones is only one third of that in patients who originally had multiple stones , we can predict that as patients selected for extra corporeal shock wave dissolution mainly have solitary stones , the recurrence rate after lithotripsy should be lower than that reported here . |
| 13 | This control group represents a consecutive 18 patients chosen at random from a period midway through our experience in 1987 to 1989 , who are typical of patients presenting for elective operation for ulcerative colitis . |
| 14 | The delays were caused mainly by patients waiting for long term care ( because private provision had n't kept up with demand ) . |
| 15 | At the Royal Brompton alone there are 113 patients waiting for heart-lung transplants — transplants that do not always work . |
| 16 | There were 229 new referrals from general practice , most of whom had previously received one or more courses of antibiotic treatment ; 155 existing patients who showed little or no clinical improvement after at least three months ' antibiotic treatment ; and 84 patients sampled for other reasons ( mainly anxiety and screening after treatment with isotretinoin ) . |
| 17 | Two hundred and twenty of the 283 ( 78% ) patients assessed for non-operative treatment of their gall stones were suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy and have undergone treatment as shown in the Figure . |
| 18 | Patients randomised for steroid treatment received oral prednisone ( 1 mg/kg/day ) . |
| 19 | Duodenal biopsy specimens were taken during diagnostic endoscopies with biopsy forceps for 13 untreated ( mucosa morphology grade III-IV , according to Scott and Losowsky ) and nine treated coeliac patients ( mucosa morphology grade I-II ) , and from nine patients investigated for epigastric pain ( normal villous structure ) . |
| 20 | These reports , however , were based mainly on small groups of patients studied for short periods of time . |
| 21 | Five years later he was judged by the hospital staff and by the Home Secretary , who has to agree to the fitness of certain patients held for indeterminate periods , to be discharged on trial leave . |