Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] [art] patients " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence or severity of the lesions contributing to the anaemia was difficult to interpret at endoscopy in 43 of the patients as they had received a course of H 2 antagonists ( n=18 ) or had reduced or stopped aspirin or NSAIDs ( n=32 ) , or both , before the first hospital attendence . |
| 2 | In three of the patients , the duodenal biopsies were normal and in the others there was a chronic and acute inflammatory cell infiltrate and evidence of gastric metaplasia . |
| 3 | In two of the patients identified as having a macroadenoma ( cases 5 and 6 ) tumours , 10 and 11 mm in diameter , behaved as typical prolactinomas : menses were restored and plasma prolactin concentration was normalised by treatment with the dopamine agonist bromocriptine ( table II ) . |
| 4 | We believe that thrombosis of leg veins or pelvic veins occurred intraoperatively , accounting for the early presentation in two of the patients . |
| 5 | Secondly , a major reduction in portal venous inflow to the liver associated with reversed ( caudal ) blood flow , may occur in the absence of obstruction within the portal venous system , as observed in two of the patients with decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis with % PV flows of 28% and 23% respectively ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 6 | It is noted that the diagnosis in two of the patients who died was hepatocellular carcinoma and it may be that referral of these patients was precluded because of this . |
| 7 | In particular , the low pepsinogen A concentration and pepsinogen A:C ratio in two of the patients , may point to atrophic gastritis , which is supported by an increased gastrin concentration in one of them . |