The regimen has successfully bridged five patients to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and was well tolerated in patients unfit for conventional chemotherapy, including elderly and heavily pretreated patients.
Patients infected by conventional bacteria were elderly, had a greater hospitalization rate, and higher mortality within 30 days.
In contrast with patients infected by atypical agents, those infected by conventional bacteria were elderly, had more comorbidities, or had a higher severity of CAP at diagnostic.
EGFR-TKI is more effective than conventional chemotherapy in elderly patients, if we could pay attention to drug discontinuation and dose reduction due to age-related organ dysfunction [ 21].
Fenaux, P. et al. Azacitidine prolongs overall survival compared with conventional care regimens in elderly patients with low bone marrow blast count acute myeloid leukemia.
The tangible improvements in the lives of Japan's disabled that have occurred are in many ways a by-product of remedies aimed at more conventional citizens, particularly the elderly.
Perhaps it's the nature of Social Security that means it should be different, and that's worth thinking about, but it reminds me of the conventional wisdom that the elderly see medical providers more often than is truly necessary, as a means of seeking out human contact, and I've added to the article queue the question of social capital and community engagement among the elderly.
10 These characteristics make all the difference compared with conventional antipsychotic drugs in elderly people.
Experimental evidence regarding the more serious adverse events of antipsychotics is limited to atypical antipsychotics and little is known about the safety of conventional antipsychotics in the elderly.
Intracavitary Cidofovir, as well as interferon-α, may represent a reasonable choice in patients' refractory to conventional chemotherapy, or in elderly patients not eligible for more toxic systemic therapies [ 12].
