Example sentences of "patients [Wh pn] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , the loss of the gall bladder reservoir , the increase in gastro-oesophageal reflux , and the possible relation with cholonic neoplasia suggest that young patients who develop gall stones in relation to a particular episode — for example , pregnancy — may be better served by preservation of the gall bladder .
2 The remaining six patients who requested pouch excision all had ulcerative colitis .
3 Seventeen of the patients who identified food sensitivities had an open rechallenge with recurrence of symptoms in 10 ( 24% of total ) .
4 Frequency of symptomatic gall stone recurrence — Of the 21 patients who developed gall stone recurrence by the original criteria , only two had complained of biliary colic during the study .
5 In a preliminary report , however , Tint et al noted that 75% of their patients who developed gall stone recurrence after dissolution of their primary stones by oral bile acid treatment had symptoms .
6 Ninety five per cent of those patients who developed adenocarcinoma in CLO smoked and half of them drank more than 40 units of alcohol per week representing a subgroup of patients with metaplastic CLO at increased risk .
7 Information extracted included date of birth , relevant medical and surgical history , date of onset of symptoms , date of diagnosis ( histological/radiological ) , disease extent ( barium enema/colonoscopy ) , surveillance colonoscopy date and findings , biopsy site and histological findings , and present status if known ; ( c ) cases of cancer in association with colitis were identified from histopathology department records that document all colitis patients who developed dysplasia , cancer , or had colonic surgery since 1978 .
8 Excluding patients who developed pancreatitis , 43 ( 18% ) developed abdominal pain after ERCP — 21 in the octreotide and 23 in the placebo groups .
9 Excluding those patients who developed pancreatitis , 43 ( 18% ) developed non-specific post ERCP abdominal pain — in the octreotide and 23 in the placebo group .
10 In our study , all patients who developed pancreatitis had injection of the pancreatic duct , three had repeat injections , two had overfilling resulting in acinar opacification , and two had ductal pathology on pancreatography .
11 From these data a relative risk of 3.04 ( 1.18 , 4.90 ; 95% confidence interval ) for colorectal cancer can be calculated for patients who misuse anthranoid containing laxatives .
12 All the patients who experienced disease flares were taking sulphasalazine .
13 In congestive heart failure , increased inspired oxygen concentrations improved the subjective scores for fatigue and breathlessness , although the oxygen saturation was more than 90% even in those patients who breathed room air .
14 All patients who became serum HBsAg positive after transplant , became HBeAg positive irrespective of HDV infection .
15 Half the patients who require heart surgery are dealt with immediately , but the hon. Gentleman is right to say that some patients have to wait .
16 ‘ I fear peoples ’ sight is being put at risk because the hospital simply does not have enough cash to treat all the patients who require help . ’
17 ‘ I fear peoples ’ sight is being put at risk because the hospital simply does not have enough cash to treat all the patients who require help . ’
18 ‘ Munchausen 's syndrome ’ is the name given to attention-seeking patients who feign illness or deliberately fabricate symptoms .
19 There were no significant differences in plasma PYY or enteroglucagon concentrations between patients who received sedation and those who received non ( data not shown ) .
20 Nine controls , 13 patients who did not receive treatment and nine patients who received treatment were studied .
21 Eighteen ( 75% ) patients who received chemotherapy and eight ( 67% ) symptomatically treated patients completed at least two questionnaires on quality of life , including one at baseline , and were thus considered evaluable .
22 From our clinical records we have identified 35 patients who received HRT with conjugated oestrogens ( Premarin or Prempak C 0.625 mg per day , Wyeth ) with tamoxifen 20 mg per day ( table ) , with hot flushes being the key symptom .
23 In a randomised double blind study , 29 patients who received octreotide in a dose of 0.1 mg subcutaneously given 45 minutes before ERCP had a significantly smaller increase in pancreatic enzyme activities compared with 34 control subjects .
24 None of the patients who received cyclosporin developed dysplasia or tumours .
25 A study of 26 patients who received somatostatin in a dose of 250 µg/hour over 24 hours did not show significant reduction in amylase activities compared with historical controls .
26 In Bleich and colleagues ' study of tissue plasminogen activator ( tPA ) with or without intravenous heparin , the initial angiogram showed coronary patency in a higher proportion of patients who received heparin ( 71 vs 43% , p=0.015 ) , but there was no significant effect on rates of recurrent ischaemia or reocclusion in the week after infarction .
27 Of those patients who drank alcohol , half of the severe oesophagitis group drank more than 40 units/week and six drank more than 100 units/week ( mean 50.2 , median 40 , range 1->100 units/week ) .
28 Of the 176 patients who took part in the study , 67 received no drugs during endoscopy , 49 received Valium ( mean dose 5.4 mg , range 2.5–10.0 ) , 18 Demerol ( mean dose 27 mg , range 10–50 ) , and 42 Valium ( mean dose 5.7 mg , range 2.5–10.0 ) and Demerol ( mean dose 38 mg , range 10–100 ) .
29 Our analysis covers a 19 year period and includes some patients who took atenolol for over 10 years .
30 Depressed and anxious patients who sought refuge from their troubles by taking an overdose remained unconscious for a time but did not die of respiratory failure or asphyxiation , as happened only too readily after an overdose of barbiturate .
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