Sentence examples for grave patients from inspiring English sources

"Thank God the patients were not grave patients," he said.

They also found that antibodies from Graves patients activated IGF-1 receptors in fibroblasts from rheumatoid arthritis patients (and vice versa), triggering chemokine production and T cell migration.

We used more than 10 tissues from Graves' patients and successfully obtained proliferative cells from all of them.

There is evidence that thyroid cancer in Graves' patients is more aggressive.

May be the sodium perfusion test could help identify the Graves patients that are more susceptible to develop postoperative hypocalcemia.

Furthermore, the mean malignancy rate of palpable nodules in Graves' patients is about 16% versus a 5% malignancy rate in the general population (reviewed in [ 26]).

In a retrospective multicenter study with more than 500 Graves' patients thyroid carcinomas were found in 3.8% (20 out of 21 were papillary carcinomas) [ 27].

Thus, in conjunction with the above-mentioned prevalence rates of thyroid nodules, it can be estimated that Graves' patients have an almost 10-fold higher chance of developing thyroid cancer.

Another study matched these results and found a malignancy rate of 3.3% in their collective of Graves' patients [ 28], whereas the incidence of thyroid cancer in the general US population was estimated at about 14.4 per 100,000 [ 29].

However, it seems that the prevalence of palpable nodules is about 3-fold higher in Graves' patients (15.8%) [ 21] compared to the general population living in a non-endemic region (5%) [ 22].

Studies have found that in Graves' patients thyroid carcinomas grow more invasively and develop lymph node and distant metastases more frequently compared to euthyroid controls [ 31- 33], although a more recent study was not able to confirm these data [ 34].