Example sentences of "had [adj] disease " in BNC.

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1 Four patients had total colitis and two patients had extensive disease — that is , reaching the transverse colon but with an upper limit distal to the hepatic flexure .
2 Nine patients ( 38% ) had stable disease and seven ( 29% ) progressive disease .
3 Crohn 's disease was ileocolic in 10 cases , involved only the small bowel in nine patients , and 13 patients had colonic disease .
4 The two studies can not be compared , however , because Orchard and Bickerstaff did not define the type of gastritis because the patients in their study had ulcerative disease that affected the stomach and not the duodenum .
5 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 ) .
6 An analysis of cases in a trial of thrombolytic therapy in 1984–5 demonstrated that two thirds of the patients had coronary disease affecting only one of the three coronary vessels .
7 Eleven patients had ileocolic disease and 11 had disease confined to the colon or anorectal region , or both .
8 The few men in this series of patients all had epididymal disease , and early inguinal and pelvic gland obstruction is characterised by the lymph scrotum ( which has a velvety feel ) , craggy epididymitis , and hydrocele .
9 More than one in three men over 70 with acute renal failure had prostatic disease as a cause ( 27 out of 72 ) .
10 In this state , he attacks the professor 's wife and tries to rape her , while she , in turn , has discovered that her former lover had venereal disease and has also made her pregnant !
11 Patients were excluded if they had severe disease not attributable to chronic respiratory disease , severe psychiatric disease , or if they used NIPPV at home .
12 All had terminal disease ( defined as no available antineoplastic therapy ) .
13 The range of sevirty of gastrointestinal symptoms was similar during the second year of follow up ; 23 patients had quiescent disease , 42 children mild symptoms , 25 moderate , and nine severe ( Table I ) .
14 Three of the patients with normal endoscopic examinations had coeliac disease proved by duodenal biopsy ( one other patient had giardia ) .
15 Of these two had gastric carcinomas , one had coeliac disease , one had pernicious anaemia ( defined by B 1 2 absorption studies and antibody tests ) , and one had a gastric ulcer .
16 As four patients had pernicious anaemia ( three already on treatment ) , one had coeliac disease and two gastric carcinoma the checking of B 1 2 values in patients with iron deficiency anaemia seems to be a useful test .
17 Four patients had evidence of coronary artery disease on routine annual coronary arteriographic assessment but only two had significant disease .
18 Ten of these 15 patients had active disease but normal serum liver function tests .
19 Fourteen of the patients had active disease — that is at least five loose stools with visible blood ( all had visible inflammation at endoscopy ) — and the remaining 10 patients were in clinical remission .
20 Six patients had active disease as judged by the combination of symptoms requiring steroid treatment and active inflammation seen endoscopically .
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