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24 It should be noted, however, that while participants experienced gains in measures of functional performance, the study sample still had arguably high levels of function at baseline.
"The message is that early intervention offers hope for incomplete injuries for improvement and high levels of function, including walking".
In a systematic review of studies of hemicraniectomy for large strokes published last year in The Journal of Neurosurgery, the authors concluded that, despite leaving a significant fraction of patients with moderate or severe disability, many hemicraniectomy patients emerge with high levels of function and reasonable qualities of life.
To date, in vitro methods for producing tissues with highly ordered structure and high levels of function have met with limited success although a variety of 3D culture systems have been investigated.
To evolutionary biologists, then, the problem of extending healthspan is how to produce the adaptations required to sustain high levels of function at later ages.
Additionally, there was an overlap of clinical severity among non-ambulatory subjects with spinal muscular atrophy type 2 and subjects with spinal muscular atrophy type 3. Overall, 32% of patients from the present cohort were ambulant or able to stand with assistance, with relatively high levels of function.
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The key quality indicator for the employer is patient outcome: are patients able to resume high levels of functioning and is this functioning sustained over time?
This may be due to restriction of range of the QLQ-C30 (given the relatively high levels of functioning in our sample).
This may be particularly important for adults and adolescents, who are often required to maintain high levels of functioning over these periods.
Women reported high levels of functioning across several standardized QOL scales; mild impairment was found on the CARES-SF Sexual Scale.
Another neurologist who specializes in dementia, Dr. Norman Relkin, of New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, said, "In some cases I've followed patients for many years and they have been able to maintain a relatively high level of function in positions of responsibility".
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