Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] patients who " in BNC.

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1 Comparison of the data for the 26 patients who received NIPPV with that of the 30 treated conventionally demonstrated improved survival ( 1 death in 26 vs 9 in 30 ) .
2 Follow up data for the 18 patients who were alive when the 1988 report was assembled have been obtained from the most recent inpatient assessment at Harefield Hospital ( 1991–2 ) , where all but one patient are reviewed in depth each year or more often if problems arise .
3 Other forms of surgery are , therefore , still necessary for the many patients who suffer uncontrollable or repeated haemorrhage after sclerotherapy .
4 Survival was 14 months ( median , range 2.5–20 months ) for the seven patients who have died .
5 In spite of the vast array of clinical and pathological features which help predict patient outcome , individual tumour behaviour can still not be accurately determined for the most patients who fall into Dukes 's stage B and C1 , with 77% and 41% 5 year survival respectively .
6 In radionuclide transit the times of the appearance of 5% and 90% of the isotope in the stomach differed significantly ( p<0.02 and p<0.05 ) between the 15 patients who were tested and the healthy controls ( Fig 6 ) .
7 Of the six patients who underwent intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation and were discharged from hospital after transplantation two are alive , the four others having died at 10 weeks , 31 , 42 , and 61 months .
8 Five of the six patients who had not undergone operation were staged by computed tomography and bone marrow biopsy .
9 Of the six patients who had previously had gall stone recurrence , five ( 83% ) developed a further recurrence during the trial compared wth 16 recurrences in the 76 patients who had not previously had recurrent stones ( 21% ) .
10 An adequate knowledge of the existence , timing , and source of postcoital pills was shown by 52 ( 30% ) of the 171 patients who had recognised a potential contraceptive failure and 25 ( 12% ) of the 210 who had not used any contraception — that is , 77 ( 20% ) of the 381 patients who might have benefited from their use .
11 By the end of the healing phase , 19 ( 0.99% ) of the 1923 patients who had fulfilled the entry criteria had failed to heal : the time to healing was 12 weeks in 76 patients ( 3.95% ) , 24 weeks in 29 patients ( 1.51% ) , and greater than 24 weeks in seven patients ( 0.36% ) .
12 Only in two of the 93 patients who had both endoscopy and colonic assessment was colonic neoplasia ( in each case a small <5 mm adenoma ) found to coexist with an upper gastrointestinal lesion ( a gastric ulcer and grade 2 oesophagitis ) .
13 The 1 , 2 , and 5 year survival rates of the 85 patients who underwent oesophagectomy were 67% , 38% , and 24% respectively , and for the 27 inoperable or irresectable patients the figures were 26% , 11% , and 0% respectively ( p<0.001 ) ( Fig 1 ) .
14 Of the 18 patients who were alive at the time of the 1988 report , 14 patients ( 11 men and three women , mean age 48 years ) were alive and well in 1992 at a mean ( range ) of 69 ( 61–83 ) months after transplantation .
15 Of the 18 patients who were alive at short term follow up , one has since died of coronary disease ; a second patient with coronary disease died of carcinoma of the lung ; and four further surviving patients have angiographic evidence of disease .
16 Of the 42 patients who began individual food reintroductions 28 completed the regimen .
17 None of the 52 patients who had therapeutic interventions developed pancreatitis .
18 However , when analysed on an intention-to-treat basis with inclusion of the 4 patients who were not treated with NIPPV , 2 of whom died , the survival advantage was lower : 3/30 vs 9/30 ( relative risk=0.33 , CI=0.10 to 1.11 , p=0.106 ) .
19 A doctor spoke recently of the many patients who came to him — mostly men — complaining of stiff neck , poor sleep , loss of appetite and failing sexual desire .
20 Of the four patients who remain there , two were still in intensive care last night .
21 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 ) .
22 Of the 16 patients who underwent gastric pH monitoring there was a clear relationship between gastric and oesophageal alkalinisation in 13 .
23 Of the two patients who did not respond to prolonged treatment one had extremely high initial serum HBV-DNA levels ( >1000 pg/ml ) , while both patients had near normal aspartate aminotransferase levels at entry .
24 In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen .
25 Of the 10 patients who had taken oral contraceptives , only one developed gall stone recurrence but neither of the two patients taking hormone replacement treatment developed recurrent stones .
26 Of the 26 patients who received a suitable donor organ , 17 of the 20 patients who survived to hospital discharge lived more than 5 years and 14 of these were alive at a mean ( range ) of 69 ( 61–83 ) months after surgery .
27 In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen .
28 Two of the five patients who were difficult to control on acid inhibitory treatment had complications from their DU ; one having an acute bleed requiring transfusion of three units of blood while on full dose H 2 antagonist treatment and one experiencing two separate acute bleeds each requiring blood transfusion .
29 Fourteen ( 15% ) of the control group failed to be seen again in a hospital diabetes clinic during the study period compared with only three ( 3.4% ) of the prompted patients who failed to attend for clinical diabetic review ( p=0.013 ; table IV ) .
30 Of the 36 patients who were alive at the end of the study period and who were not considered for liver transplant , 26 had alcoholic liver disease ( 25 not abstinent , one abstinent , but with ischaemic heart disease ) and three had primary biliary cirrhosis ( in two of these advanced disease was manifest but one had additional psychiatric disease and one advanced cardiopulmonary disease ) .
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