Sentence examples for a very selected patient from inspiring English sources

This observational study investigated the prevalence of neuroradiologic lesions in a very selected patient population with septic shock with acute neurological symptoms, without contraindication to MRI and preexisting cerebral disease.

Most patients had progressed at the time of first evaluation after only 6 weeks, contrary to a prior report on 15 heavily pretreated and thus possibly very selected patients with recurrent glioma of various histologies, who had received a median of four cycles of sagopilone and achieved disease stabilization in one third of the patients [ 19].

Based on these results, even though primary surgery remains the standard of care, neoadjuvant chemotherapy should be considered in very selected patients, specifically among women with stage IIIC or IV disease.

Although pelvic exenteration plays a definitive role in the management of recurrent cervical carcinoma, its impact in terms of the proportion of cervical cancer patients who benefit from such radical procedure has remained unchanged because it continues to be indicated in only very selected patients with small central pelvic recurrences.

Although elderly patients have not been excluded from randomised phase III trials evaluating the activity of second-line chemotherapy (Shepherd et al, 2000; Hanna et al, 2003), only very selected patients with good performance status are candidates to salvage chemotherapy in everyday clinical practice.

In this study, we demonstrated that tumour factors as well as background liver factors were risk factors even in HCC patients with Child C cirrhosis, and that TACE can be effective in a very selected group of patients.

In our trial we investigated with validated instruments the overall quality of life of a very selected population of patients.

Vaccination strategies for RSV prevention are heavily studied, but only palivizumab (Synagis®) has been approved for use in the United States in very select patient populations.

Esophagectomy and gastrectomy for cancer in cirrhotic patients should only be considered for very carefully selected patients, even if the selection appears to have to be less strict for gastric cancer, i.e., Child A patient, normal preoperative liver function tests, and no previous history of edematoascitic decompensation.

Hepatic resection can achieve prolonged survival with an acceptable mortality risk in selected patients, but this approach has classically been reserved for a very select group of patients, usually those with a solitary metastasis discovered some time after the primary colorectal resection.

In our series of very highly selected patients, the recurrence rate for nontotal thyroidectomy was high (21%); however, the need for secondary surgical intervention was low (4%).